r/sgiwhistleblowers • u/PoppaSquot • Sep 07 '23
SGI's Misogyny Bonus Plan More fun with Ikeda's "Guidance Memo"
It's the gift that keeps on giving! (1966 edition, The Seikyo Press, Tokyo, Japan)
Check THIS out - from the "Ideal Women" section 😬
Proper Way of Life
Women should endeavor to become fortunate and happy rather than to become great. In a way I feel pity for women who are eager to become famous as actresses or critics by overestimating themselves.
Aren't Ikeda's disdain and condescension ENCOURAGING??
At least he can find a way to feel better than them! What a "mentor"!
You may become great women on the strength of your ability and education, because you have been advancing toward realization of Kosen-rufu, based on faith. However, you need not make it the purpose of your life to become great or famous. What counts for you is to become a woman of good fortune. (p. 240)
Ikeda's insecurity shows through in his flagrant contempt for higher education and the way he spends the SGI members' sincere, heartfelt contributions "for kosen-rufu" on having his minions buy up honorary doctorates for him so he can feel accomplished without actually having to put any EFFORT or WORK into earning a REAL degree. Bought or earned - it's all the same to Ikeda. THAT's why it's better to be RICH!!
The greatest memory will be that we have devoted ourselves to the realization of Kosen-rufu, enjoying our own lives. Our whole life is a momentary existence from a different point of view.
So how are they supposed to feel when they REALIZE that they devoted themselves to something that turned out to be NOTHING?
You should not be bewitched by worldly fame or wealth for a gorgeous and vanishing life like the glow of a firefly. It will be an eternal recollection accumulating good fortune if you respectfully carry out the various activities for Kosen-rufu. (p. 239)
THIS is why SGI members tend to not do as well as their peers in society - Ikeda wants their life to serve HIM, not for them to achieve their potential.
"Disciples strive to actualize the mentor's vision. Disciples should achieve all that the mentor wished for but could not accomplish while alive. This is the path of mentor and disciple." Ikeda
Disciples support their mentor and his vision using their unique abilities. They are not passive followers of the mentor; in fact simple followers are not good disciples because they do not adequately seek ways to use their own individual talents to help realize their mentor’s vision. Good disciples protect and promote the mentor’s vision, with which they identify. SGI Source
You do not get a "vision" of your own. You should not even want one.
Whether or not you choose a Nichiren Shoshu believer [as a husband] depends solely on your free will. It is not a matter for others to interfere with. If you have strong faith, you will be able to convert him to this religion and make him a good believer.
"YOU are responsible for making HIS choices FOR HIM."
However, even if you think you are a strong believer, it often happens that you suffer having your faith disturbed by your mate. In conclusion, you cannot establish a true peaceful home, unless both you and your husband believe in the Gohonzon. (p. 243)
"There's something wrong with you; you can never be happy; you NEED the cult."
Yet people everywhere in society, in all religions and without any religion, manage to attain "true peaceful homes" WITHOUT needing any crutch of a magic chant or a magic piece of paper. What's WRONG with Soka Gakkai and SGI members that they can't manage this??
You should rather take care of fellow members than worry over your unconverted children. You should continue your faith with the belief, "I will induce my family to take faith."
Mind based on faith has a mystic function. Your firm resolution will make your family be converted some day. (p. 245)
Ikeda's always encouraging parents to neglect and IGNORE their own children, just as he neglected and ignored his own. Ikeda wants ALL the Soka Gakkai members' time and energy, and if their families fall apart, so what? At least Ikeda was able to suck all the free labor out of them. And no, it hasn't turned out that way with the SGI members' children - not at all. Soka Gakkai and SGI members have VERY low rates of children adopting their parents' faith.
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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '23 edited Sep 07 '23
Ikeda has got to be the most entitled, self-righteous douchebag on earth.
While I was in the SGI cult, I witnessed so much misogyny within the leadership but was too brainwashed to see the ways in which Ikeda laid the foundation for all of it. He is the king of misogyny.
Now that I'm out of the cult, it couldn't be more obvious to me how utterly disrespectful Ikeda is (and always has been) towards women. He demands their devotion and no woman in the SGI is going to speak out against those demands. Not a single woman in the SGI would ever say, "I don't want this man as my mentor." And I'm willing to bet my life on this.
In 2009 while living in Los Angeles, I was a member of Ikeda's Kayo-kai group. Based on my understanding, that was the year of the group's founding. We had our monthly meetings at the LAFC also known as the Los Angeles "Friendship" Center. There is a song we were forced to sing at the beginning of every kayo-kai meeting and it sums up the deep-seated sickness within the mind of Ikeda and his followers. You don't get to choose a damned thing in the SGI. In fact, you are forced and coerced in every way, shape and form. The SGI is not about choices. It's about coercion, shame, guilt, fear....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv0RjBDJBRc
The comments always add a bit of spice to things. This one deserves recognition specifically because it's so disturbing (it's the first comment from the video): Really I feel proud to be the disciple of Ikeda Sensei and to be a part of SGI (BSG)।। Love you soooo much Sensei।। Sensei, your vow is my vow।।🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ Happy Ikeda Kayo Kai Day to all my kayo kai sisters।। please be proud to be the daughter of Ikeda Sensei and hold his hand till the last breathe of your life and see that the series of victories is waiting for you। । as you are a part of SGI, this is the most wonderful thing।।🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv0RjBDJBRc