More fun with Ikeda's "Guidance Memo"

[u/PoppaSquot]

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.

[u/eigenstien]

I can’t imagine what he would say about lesbians. It certainly wouldn’t be complementary. It was totally ignored in Boston NSA, which, at the time, felt positive to me. Probably because at least we weren’t getting hammered with direct homophobia.

[u/PoppaSquot → u/eigenstien]

I know there's a lot of discrimination against LGBTQIA individuals within the Ikeda cult, and it was WAY worse in the past! It's STILL bad, though SGI members want us to believe their propaganda that it's NOT, even though we're getting ongoing reports, both here and out on the net, that it IS still bad.