HI Dave, I just wanted to comment on the way you shared your SGI experience. I was expecting the "normal" SGI bashing but was really taken aback by your honest...
Hi Jeanette, I'm happy that you appreciated my post. I hope that it does have that effect as I do think that SGI has a lot of potential greatness. I also know...
Top Post: Dave, thank you for posting this. It surely does sum up most of the reasons people are turned on by or turned off by SGI in different areas. I...
Hi Ryuei, I always have appreciated the information you have shared and the excellent book which you wrote. You are a great resource and I bet the meetings you...
Hi, Dave - I'm curious to know where you live. Here in LA,, thre are definitely shamanistic-type influences at the Nichiren Shu temple. I was wondering if...
Hi, everybody - this little post is just to wish everyone here a very very happy 4th of July. Don't drink and drive. This past week, I have been really,...
... <wahzoh@...> wrote: - snip - ... Hi Byrd, Dave, et. al. I agree. My mother has been a pre-school teacher for many years and was often concerned over the...
Disfavor Soka gakkai. He consider SGI are brainwasher and including Moonies are brainwashers completely. He told me to stay away from the SGI and continued...
... Hi Byrd, Yep, I live in Lancaster, CA up in the Antelope Valley area of Los Angeles County and came down to visit the Nichiren Shu temple on a couple of...
kathy spicer wrote: "What should I do?" Fire him...He has no business telling you what religion to practice...His personal judgements about the SGI are...
Hi, I agree with the original post. I actually think most of us that are reformists, fringe members, potential members, and interested ex members, still...
... I just posted a bit of a more smart alecky response to this before reading your response Dave, but for what it's worth I second your statement here. Namu...
... brainwashers completely. He told me to stay away from the SGI and continued taking medications. He said SGI is making a multibillionaire profits in...
... I have a lot of respect for Bishop Kanai. However, I would like to point out that each Nichiren Shu temple is different. Oh they are consistent about basic...
If your psychiatrist believes in brainwashing, then he is not well- versed in the current state of the science. - Brian ... including Moonies are brainwashers...
Two things I do not understand! 1. Why did you retune your Gohonzon after three years of practice? Didn't realize that the Gohonzon is not some kind of...
... therefore you do not need to return it to SGI?. The Gohonzon was given to you so you may exert yourself in practice and be able through the practice to...
@ pb: I never heared that one NEEDS a gohonzon to reach enlightment. David explained his reasons quite well I have difficulties to understand what excatly you...
Dear Kathy, I used to be a patient of severe clinical depression, visiting psychiatrists all my life, paying through my nose to be prescribed with medications,...
Thanks catflap and ryuei for the supportive responses. To pb: 1. I joined SGI three years ago - not practiced with SGI Buddhism for three years. AND the...
Hi! Im not sure I understand what you are saying..but here are the thoughts that lurk when I read your response.. I dont know how a carrot works..but I think...
It always seemed to me, the SGI/NST taught a need and dependence on the actual physical scroll as well as the wooden mandala. Even during the split, both...
... I thought David's post was really helpful in that it summarized well things I've heard before in bits and pieces about why someone would not want to...
I's like to encourage any of you out there to e-mail me if you'd like to receive an encouraging blend of a pro-SGI and pro-gay e-newsletter. It is my goal to...
... I would like to say that I do not experience Nichiren Buddhism as a form of Buddhism that requires intermediaries. In most Nichiren schools it is taught...
Just like anything else, I think there are good and bad psychiatrists. However, beating on psychiatry per se is not a good idea. There is a religion which...
David This is a superb and well balanced representation of the issues for SGI today. I think its a real shame you're outside the organisation now because it...
... become ... and ... whether ... High ... a form of Buddhism that ... directly from the scrolls of ... when I asked my sensei, ... in Nichiren Shu as well. I...
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