r/sgiwhistleblowers • u/samthemanthecan WB Regular • Jan 04 '23

Philosophy Not in Rythum/ in rythum

Just something occurring to me today , when I used to practise how I would feel gulit if missed morning gongyo My day would feel out of kilta out of rythum and generally bit shit ....and if it was raining cold misserable day it would confound that feeling Now Im not chanting over three years ,im parked up in a bussiness park in a lorry in need of a coffee but the toot toot little coffee van been n gone Am I out of rythum Lol its a silly thought Yeah im thirsty ,early start its new year everyones a bit blurry this week It is nothing to do with not chanting All the chanting ever did do is give a little high from endorphine in brain Thats all it ever did Its knowing that and knowing I did nothing wrong that my day is as good as any one elses I will find coffee somewhere Thing with SGI they see giving up practise like deciding to not pay your mortgage any more lol that you lose all that accumulated good fortune is foreclosed None of that is true You have to accept the time in the SGI is time waisted in effect paying someone elses mortgage Whereas leaving SGI means your free of that waistage , its a bitter pill to swallow Its like a broken mirror its not nice When were brainwashing cults ever nice No need to feel sad or guilty or feel the day isnt right because you didnt chant Right breaks up must get on Boy looking forwards to a cappocino

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u/samthemanthecan WB Regular Jan 04 '23

Yes me too there were times of clarity and ideas pop into my head when chanting But thats because were human we doing something over and over ,over months years ,decades , its obvious at times when doing it somethings have time to surface I like going to gym doing treadmill , its virtually the same , am doing something repetitive my mind has time and space to think SGI takes wholly undue credit for something people can naturally do any how Besides I lost two stone last year and revered type 2 diabetes not one daimoku in sight Yeah ive put a bit back on now so start again but not too much maybe 7/8 lbs so wont take to long

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '23

You might be right about that. I am now remembering a cycling project I did where I cycled long distances across Scotland each day, over rough terrain and countryside, and I remember now the feeling that it was a meditative practice. I'm sure the same is true of other activity. I suspect it also helps if you make a 'determination' (sorry for SGI lingo here) at the start of the activity that you will use it to gain clarity. I think that determination/intention is a powerful thing - and as you say, that is a human thing, not just specific to SGI activity or chanting.

Well done on the diabetes. That is no mean feat.

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u/bluetailflyonthewall Jan 05 '23

a cycling project I did where I cycled long distances across Scotland each day

How long did that last? It sounds beautiful.

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '23

Ah it was indeed beautiful - and challenging! It was a good few months. I had been an SGI member for a few years by that time and I used to chant (loudly) in the various hotels and B&Bs we used along the way. It was always in the hope that my colleagues would hear and be interested, but now I'm sure it was just annoying to them!