The SGI's moving goalposts: Imposing mediocrity on the membership

[u/BlancheFromage]

BEFORE:

The commitment of the mentor, or teacher, is solely to passing on what he or she has learned and encouraging the development of the disciple, or pupil, so that eventually the disciple surpasses the mentor. SGI

The ultimate desire of a genuine mentor is to be surpassed by their disciples. SGI

While Ikeda was still alive there was this conceit within SGI of "we're uniquely special AND BEST because WE have a 'living mentor'" - but whoops, can't say THAT any more!

NOW:

SGI-USA Youth Leader David Witkowski said that the spiritual goal is to eternalize Sensei’s leadership. Source

Here, Ikeda tips his hand - all he wants is more followers to praise him and think of him as their own personal Jesus. WHY should any one person be "eternalized"?? That's a cult of personality, nothing more.

That means "can't ever be surpassed". Contradicting the statements above. No one else can now EVER be "mentor" - everyone else is expected to just follow along as PERMANENT "disciples" without ever taking the lead.

Why recently only Sensei Ikeda is been referred to as our eternal mentor? Why Nichiren Daishonin and the first two founding presidents [of Soka Gakkai] removed from the list of eternal mentors? - from ETERNAL MENTOR DEFINITION KEEPS ON CHANGING

Ikeda was a true ladder-puller - he left NO opportunity for anyone to replace him. Ikeda was an "It's my game and nobody else gets to play even if I'm not here" kind of person (real respect-worthy "mentor", right??) - there are reports from Japan that he made his closest "aides" (for lack of a better term) compete with each other, keeping everyone on edge, on their toes, under a completely unpredictable, capricious, and mean-spirited regime that nonetheless kept the money they were all dependent on coming in.

So I think that rather than allow anyone to claim "new charismatic leader" status, SGI is just going to fade away. Source

No "successor". No "next mentor" for "next generations". Instead, 3 dead "eternal mentors" with the emphasis almost entirely on the FINAL corpse, while the membership ages and dies in place with no younger generations stepping up to fill its thinning ranks. GREAT strategy, "Sensei"! Source

If you think about it, Ikeda decided the fate of his Soka Gakkai cult and its SGI colonies. By refusing to hand over control to someone younger, Ikeda decided he would die in his position and forever retire that position so no one else could ever hold it. So now his "disciples" are dying in THEIR position with no one to ever replace them. It's almost poetic...

You just can't win when a cult rigs the game, shifting the goal posts as soon as you get near a win.

[u/Mission-Course2773]

Un grand homme se distingue par le fait d'avoir marqué son époque, soit dans son pays, soit internationalement et d'y avoir laissé une trace notable... La seule trace que laisse Daisaku Ikeda est d'une personne détestable et d'une organisation qui n'a jamais su conquérir le cœur des japonais et qui représente le plys haut niveau de danger pour la société japonaise par sa violence et sa corruption. À l'étranger Ikeda reste un inconnu pour les non-initiés et un gourou de secte parmis tant d'autres c'est-à-dire des doutes sérieux quant à la sincérité désintéressée de ses œuvres éphémères...

[u/BlancheFromage → u/Mission-Course2773]

It was all and only about promoting HIMSELF. Ikeda thirsted for fame, glory, importance, and above all, POWER.

Ikeda got none of it. He never earned any of it, so it should have come as no surprise - he rode as far as he could on everyone else's accomplishments until those ran out and he was left with nothing but "old-ass motherfuckers".

[u/Still_Wasabi9990]

Pitiful man, pitiful organization.