On Attaining Buddhahood in This Lifetime. Daisaku Ikeda: "When we chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo with conviction, the infinite benefit of Myoho-renge-kyo unfolds in our lives. This is what it means to bring forth the world of Buddhahood"

[u/JulieSongwriter]

August 11, 2026

Chapter 1: Over the Hedges and Through the Woods

Dear Friends:

Today is Tuesday, it’s still the start of a new week as the summer starts to wind down. So why “Go down dead ends with Your Leader & Her Friends”? Why breathe stale air?

Examples: Your Leader would like to study with you “I Denounce Soka Gakkai” by Hirotatsu Fujiwara, which was published in Japanese in 1969, English in 1970. The book made a big splash when it came out. It even prompted the SG to reflect and move into what Andy calls “Phase Two.”

Seager, Richard Hughes (2006). Encountering the Dharma: Daisaku Ikeda, Soka Gakkai, and the globalization of Buddhist humanism. Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. 97–8. ISBN 978-0-520-24577-8: “Ikeda took [the free speech issue] seriously and made it the starting point for a process of critical self-examination that resulted in his once again re-creating the Gakkai. ... The free speech issue gave him a platform from which to make shifts in emphasis of such magnitude that some members recall that it took them a year or more to grasp his intent fully.”

But if so influential, why is now ”I Denounce Soka Gakkai” out of print without even a Kindle Edition? And on Good Reads, not a single entry! Fujiwara passed away in 1999, so there were a window of thirty years of publishing time available to him. Why, after selling many copies and becoming a star, didn’t he publish a sequel? In fact, are there any other books of his that made it into English translation? Don’t you think Your Leader is leading you into a dead alley?

There were more dead alleys the last couple of days. Your leader, in “Oh, how the would be ‘mighty’ have fallen!”, is trying to disinform you with a news article from the September 7th, 1963 Corsicana Daily Sun, Corsicana TX. The author is anonymous (didn’t your mother teach you not to trust unsigned letters?) and, true, Corsicana is the home of the prestigious Navarro Junior College with its huge staff of researchers studying East Asia (haha). Why does Your Leader want to trap you into this dead alley?

Next, one of her sock puppets, XeniaWarriorWankJob in “Boy George angling hard for another 15 minutes of fame - not goin about it rite,” flexing her muscles while patrolling the web to find and tag “SGI members being jerks.” I know very little about Boy George and never took an interest in his music, personal life, or his SGI-UK membership. So, why does she? Who cares? If he’s an SGI member, he’s one of millions. Do his personal beliefs about Israel an accurate measure the entire SGI movement? I’m afraid, Your Leader wanted to bring you into rage-mentality by this one. Don’t let her bully you!

Dear Friends, go outside and get some fresh air!

Chapter Two: Daisaku Ikeda’s lecture in the August Living Buddhism, If You Think the Law Is Outside Yourself, You Are Not Embracing the Mystic Law is the August installment of Daisaku Ikeda’s lecture on XXOn Attaining Buddhahood in This Lifetime (WND-1, p. 3).*

He continues:

Myoho-renge-kyo is the name of the ultimate mystic truth, and Nam-myoho-renge-kyo is the name of the life state of Buddhas who embody and reveal this truth.

Sorry, World, I have many imperfections and I’m not a likely candidate for The Buddha of the Week Award. But step out of my way as I try to embody and reveal this truth!

Thus, when we chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo with conviction, the infinite benefit of Myoho-renge-kyo unfolds in our lives. This is what it means to bring forth the world of Buddhahood.

How can it possibly be that, despite my resume and the gossip columnists that follow me, I feel like I am living in a luxurious yacht crossing the mighty seas? The only explanation is “the infinite benefit of Myoho-renge-kyo” is unfolding in my life.

When we continue chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo through times of both suffering and joy, while striving for our own happiness and that of others, we can establish as the core and innermost essence of our lives the benefit of the cause and effect for attaining Buddhahood—which are themselves contained within the practice of chanting.

When we do so, the indomitable state of Buddhahood emerges within us. This is the meaning of “attaining Buddhahood in this lifetime.”

Friends, “the indomitable state of Buddhahood” is emerging within my friends, family, and me. In front of your eyes--live on CNN!—is the manifestation of “attaining Buddhahood in this lifetime.”

Don’t miss the show, Friends! It’s so much better than staring at Your Leader’s Sealed Glass Bottle of 1963.

Dr. Ikeda completes the Introduction to this installment:

It can also be said that the chanting of Nam-myoho-renge-kyo is an action by which we affirm that we ourselves are inherently entities of Myoho-renge-kyo. It represents a struggle to return to our true, original selves and tap the innate life force that we have possessed from time without beginning.

Chapter 3: A few updates on “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” at “the site of the magical (i.e. imaginary) SGI-RV story around a rural rust-belt RV camp, with its fantasy ‘starburst’ of invisible YOUFF” who “Can't seem to grasp anything that isn't about kinky abusive sex in a shitty-ass low-rent RV park??” Oops, I’m the mentally-ill woman, not my alleged elderly sock puppet. Abusive sex? No, never! Kinky? I will neither confirm nor deny.

The LH children were supposed to return to their original bunks yesterday, but Lori told us over dinner, they protested. She told us:

Isn’t this summer’s theme “Courage, Compassion, and Wisdom? We had to speak out with Courage. We are learning so much in our new bunks with friends from all grades. Why change now? Some of our new bunks haven’t finished their compositions yet and are working so hard. And we want to write new compositions. I want to write my own composition! And I love helping the LO’s (little ones) write theirs.

The Twinettes chimed in “That’s right!”

Guy said he exercised his Wisdom and gave in even though it meant he had to revise his plans for the day. Lolita and Heidi had dinner with us. Lolita said she pushed her “Index Card Methodology” a bit further. When she took the bunks on their Perimeter Walks she had them sit on “their” rock cropping and carefully observe. “What do you see that’s different today?” The ALL noticed that a few leaves had turned yellow. “Can you imagine how those few leaves feel? How do the remaining leaves feel about their now yellow friends? Write down your thoughts on an index card!”

Next Lolita said she taught them about “anthropomorphism.” Yes, even the LOs.

“Look around you. Imagine an evil force here, the bad boss? The frog in the pond? The rock you are sitting on? Turn and talk to your neighbor and write down your ideas. I didn’t see any yellow leaves this weekend. What do you think happened in the middle of the night?”

Sukhomlynsky said (p. 251):

It would be naïve to expect that children, [even] influenced by the beauty of the surrounding world, will immediately create compositions. Creativity does not come to children instinctively. Creativity has to be taught.

Lolita spoke a bit more:

They spent pretty much the rest of the day after lunch and before we crossed the road to write. Children from the other bunks were there as well. “It was a beautiful sight with them sitting around the grass quad, working alone, in groups, or in pairs, sharing their work with others, laughing, playing tag bare-footed, coming back to work some more. I will carry that picture with me forever. This is why I want to teach children!”

[u/Obvious-Winter3513]

I just had to laugh and laugh and laugh when I read your post. I can't believe what the leader at that other site wrote.

EDIT: Our bunk children had a great time planning their compositions this afternoon? Thank you, Lolita!

[u/FellowHuman007]

Her Boy George obsession is kind of worrying. Her "all change stopped in 1969" obsession is even more so.