This link has been making the rounds... Listen to the sound of SGI-USA's frantic, militaristic rah-rah membership-recruitment drives and jawdropping reverence of "sensei" Daisaku Ikeda and the "mentor/disciple relationship."
What does this sound like to you? A dharma talk, or a multilevel marketing rally? This is not a parody -- it is a real SGI teleconference.
OMG. This has nothing to do with Nichiren Buddhism. Listen.
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This conference call is representative of what I've observed at WPP meetings quite frequently.Nichiren Buddhism in the hands of SGI, has become a kind of Tupperware marketing campaign. The opening experience, in all its enthusiasm, sounds like the testimony of a street hawker. As if this noble practice is all about getting converts and delivering Gohonzons.I couldn't keep listening.When President Ikeda dies - he will be declared the Buddha of this age, or the reincarnation of Nichiren and the other shoe will drop as SGI goes over the edge.
I could not listen to the end either IT DOES sound like tupperware - terrible to what SGI has come to.Hey, but we are out there watching them :-)