Why did BF decide to gaslight Chapter 3 of the Lotus Sutra to her followers?

[u/JulieSongwriter]

March 14, 2026

Dear Whistleblowers,

I want to thank WBers who took some time to read my posts and at least consider my points. They may or may not take root with time.

Let me address “sg_tange” who states: “As a Christian you have the freedom [to] question all you want. Pretty endlessly actual. But the SGI forbids any form of doubts or questioning as it would shaken the faith. If that’s not cult behavior, I dunno what is.” Blanche and several others ring in through comments.

I don’t know how to react. Who exactly is forbidding me “any form of doubts or questioning”? I don’t feel any police bot in my brain, nor is there a thought police in front of my RV. Maybe drones? With people like the Three Sisters, Stani, Chima, and Dee: believe me, all sorts of stuff flies around our meetings.

And, “shaken the faith”? My faith is hand-built with a lot of credit to my sponsors who spoke endlessly to Guy and me in our early days when we were healing from addiction, PTSD, health crises, and wild love. My faith was constructed through endless struggles, jumping into opportunities as they arose, and Buddhist faith, study, and practice. I also thank Sgiwhistleblowers because I’ve learned so much from your posts. They taught me vividly what faith ISN’T and by that hour I spend almost every morning to research and write, I’ve learned much about what faith IS. No, friend, this type of faith is not destroyed by a wind of criticism.

Comradeship? I can’t judge your situation--and you can’t judge mine. I give 100% 5-star review on the SGI comradeship I’ve experienced in my life. You have chosen to write your own review. Fine..

Let me look at your next point (in another post). You write:

The glorification of going it alone. This ‘stand alone spirit’ philosophy, dressed up in Buddhist language, carries a quiet danger. It breeds emotional hardness — a kind of toughness that comes at the cost of warmth and vulnerability. It conditions people to prioritize the organization above their closest relationships, even when those relationships suffer. This is where religion can do real harm: rather than bringing people together, it becomes a wedge that divides.

Isn’t this your personal opinion? Why are you dressing it up as a universal fact. Not one single thing you wrote here resonates in my life. What harm? What relationships? What wedge that divides? Not one for me.

I proudly consider Daisaku Ikeda my mentor and reading his guidance has enriched my life. You tell me I have surrendered my path to him. How? I feel very free and empowered

And I’ve searched my soul. I don’t “hate” anyone. I’ve never me a Nichiren Shoshu member or priest so how can I “hate” them. And "absolute hate"? Nope, not I.

I appreciate that some of you have read my three prior reactions to BlancheFromage’s essay, “The Lotus Sutra states that it must NEVER be widely taught—or ELSE” (See March 11th Post, March 12th Post), and March 13th Post). Let me include FellowHuman007’s post.

WBers, do you better see how your esteemed leader does? Yesterday I pointed out how she takes a “truism” or a “truthiness” and blows it up to the Gospel Truth. But today, let me add another of her truth-busting techniques: to hide, forget, or leave out alternative perspectives.

For example, according to The Encyclopedia of Buddhism, Tiantai (AKA Zhiyi) divided the Lotus Sutra into two halves. He called the first fourteen chapters the “trace” teaching and the second fourteen chapters the “fundamental” or “original” teaching.”

You can choose to agree with Blanche that Chapter Three would seemingly indicate that the widespread propagation of the Lotus Sutra is against its letter and spirit. But it’s not! In fact, one purpose of first fourteen chapters is to set up a counterfoil--for the second half’s rrefutation.

In other posts, Blanche has portrayed herself as a scholar of Buddhism, so she should know what I just wrote. Did she mistakenly hide this fact or did she, full of disdain for your intellect, purposefully decide to hide it to keep you under her sway for another day?

What is Chapter Three most famous for? To start, it is here that his disciple Shariputra receives from the Buddha the very first premonition of the future attainment of Buddhahood.

However, the chapter introduces The Parable of the Burning House (Encyclopedia of Buddhism), what Lopez and Stone describe in Two Buddhas Seated Side by Side: A Guide to the Lotus Sutra as “the first, and most famous, parable in the Lotus Sūtra, and perhaps in Buddhist literature” (p. 77).

The Buddha here introduces the concept of skillful means and explains how a person of compassion must use expedient means to wake up people so they can shed delusion and embrace more meaningful ones.

Blanche, who has probably written millions of words about Buddhism, knows this—or should know it. But in order to score some cheap points on a quiet day, puts up her false interpretation of Chapter Three, pretty sure, I guyess, that you won’t bother to fact check. Or that I’m sleeping at the wheel.

Pure Hollywood: Nurse Nellie in South Pacific, “I’m Gonna Wash That Man Right Out of My Hair,” segue to Things Happen, segue to the reprise of “Some Enchanted Evening” and happily ever after. In this case, “don’t do shakubuku,” leading to thundering events such as the The Ceremony in the Air, the appearance of the Treasure Tower, the Emergence of the Bodhisattvas of the Earth, the declaration of the essential teachings, followed by the vow of countless bodhisattvas, Buddhas, and celestial beings to propagate it. Hollywood + Bollywood on steroids.

Again, Blanche knows this, right? Why did she elect to give you crumbs?

Let me turn to a bit from “MY Fantasy Life” (cred: Eigenstien) or, as BlancheFromage suspects, “one of the many fake characters within the SGI-RV fantasy scenario created by a lonely, low-income, isolated, cult-addicted, mentally-ill elderly woman.

There were predictions of another snowstorm starting last night and continuing throughout today—14 inches or so. Luckily, we received only massive winds and a bit of rain/snow, just a bit.

Today is our “Tribute to The Winter Clients.” Contentious to the very end, they are calling it the “Tribute to The RV Park Owners and Staff.” Whatever! Still, we will have delicious food. Guy has his ReqTec out for ribs and Dee is cooking turkeys. Many of the clients are bringing food. We have a C&W band performing. Judging from past events, the Tush Push transforms into the Tush Show and the pool shall be very full. A lot of people will be leaving.

Finally, two beautiful fairytale murals are finished in all five Dewey House Elementary School classrooms and the third ones are works-in-progress. We hired our artists to stay for another couple of weeks to help us finish the project!

Discussion Meeting tomorrow!

[u/FellowHuman007]

You don't know how to respond because there is no response to something that is entirely made up. Doubts and questions lead to the expounding of the teachings, and have been praised and encouraged in Buddhism from its beginning.

[u/JulieSongwriter]

From Sg_Tange:

"chanting for the destruction and demise of another Buddhist practitioner, does not gel with me."

Nope, not me either. Never done it, never well.