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Tanya at Start Wearing Purple explains why she left the SGI...and what she's doing now:
So I have started my own religion. I call it Hectic Eclectic and I embrace all things and nothing. In fact, I do a lot of embracing. I've named myself the Huru Guru and I am basking in my own glory.I am much happier calling my own shots.
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I loved the growth parameter in this blogger's sensitive and inquisitive journey. Tanya ran into the SGI lately in its conundrums and she could see the supposed dream in their eye, which is, and very much WAS, initially attractive, but has become so very hollow to the degree of functioning experientially in a destructive manner, in the name of "Buddhism".I, personally, find this all very confusing. I am a simple soul. After a crash landing in Christianity with my adored father dying terribly at 44 of cancer 3 days before my 15th birthday, I went searching, hard. I went to Boulder, Colo., where you can find (still, DD?) just about any physical/life/spiritual upper you can imagine. Well, I found, or "NSA" found me, 3 times in one month.There was so much "truth" to wallow through over the months and years. How much of this crappy life is MY fault, MY karma, and how could I eradicate it as fast as possible? A journey of lightning venture we are all involved in, to be sure. And, crap evaporated, oh, but it did.But, then, we "loved" everybody -- except for the NST, or the whomever of the Nichiren community that was "joshu", "according to Nichiren's writings", whom we we then supposed to chant hateful daimoku in the name of Justice, sorry this whole line is disgusting and I will just skip the rest. I thought, NUTS. I went to the Florida Nature Culture Center and asked the top SGI leaders: "So we cherish and embrace every single being on this planet except the priesthood?" CM, a national WD leader slightly considered, "Yes, of course." There went $1000 to visit Florida for advanced guidance. Except WHO, says basic Buddhism?It's the old story with the guy trudging down the road, clutching the coat of his illusions. The Cold Wind say, "I can make that guy take off his coat" to the Sun and the Sun says, "Yah, okay..." and the CWind blows harder and harder and the guy just clutches his coat/illusions harder and harder. Finally, the Sun says, "It's my turn." The Sun comes out, it gets hotter and hotter, the guy starts to warm up and sweat and the first thing he does is struggle out of that coat of his cold, dark illusions. Is this so very hard to understand? Even in bonking the SGI?One of my fave passages of the Gosho is "When the sky is clear, the ground is illuminated." The Sun, Nitten, n'est ce pas?Regards,Armchair