Not everyone is predisposed to perform the forceful practices. Some have not studied Buddhism sufficiently and others are innately gentle people. Regardless, Nichiren mandated that his monks and priests perform the forceful practices but not necessarily laymen. He also taught that whether or not one performs the forceful practices or merely chants Namu myoho renge kyo, one should support those who do the forceful practices, either through moral support, withholding criticism, or through donations [if a priest]. The forceful practices are the only appropriate means to convert such evil men and women as Soka Gakkai leaders and members, Nichiren Shoshu priests and laymen, Islamic fundamentalists who would strap explosives on mental defectives and detonate them in the marketplace, Christian fire and brimstone fundamentalists, those of the Jewish Defense League, the Hindi Kashitra and Brahman class, and the authorities who support them.
Forceful practices has absolutely no basis in Sakyamuni's teachings, whether the Lotus or any Sutra. There is no way to force loving-kindness, compassion, joy and equanimity. What possible perverted joy do you derive from such hypocrisy?
ReplyDeleteAvichi hell ohgee, Avichi hell.
ReplyDelete“Ajita, suppose there is a person who speaks to another person, saying, ‘There is a sutra called the Lotus. Let us go together and listen to it.’ And suppose, having been urged, the other person goes and even for an instant listens to the sutra. The benefits of the first person will be such that when he is reborn he will be born in the same place as dharani bodhisattvas. He will have keen faculties and wisdom. For a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand ages he will never be struck dumb. His mouth will not emit a foul odor. His tongue will never be afflicted, nor will his mouth be afflicted. His teeth will not be stained or black, nor will they be yellow or widely spaced, nor will they be missing or fall out or be at an angle or crooked. His lips will not droop down or curl back or be rough or chapped or afflicted with sores or misshapen or twisted or too thick or too big or black or discolored or unsightly in any way. His nose will not be too broad or flat or crooked or too highly arched. His face will not be swarthy, nor will it be long and narrow, or sunken and distorted. He will not have a single unsightly feature. His lips, tongue, and teeth will all be handsomely proportioned. His nose will be long and high, his face round and full, his eyebrows long and set high, his forehead broad, smooth, and well shaped, and he will be endowed with all the features proper to a human being. In each existence he is born into, he will see the Buddha, hear his Law, and have faith in his teachings."
ReplyDeleteand those who dissuade or even disbelieve...Avichi [struck dumb, have a foul odor, festering tongue, poor dentition, lips that are crooked with many sores and ulcers, flat misshapen nose, ugly disproportioned face, missing or mangled limbs, sickly...forceful practices ohgee. Wake up!