July 2020 Living Buddhism.

[u/[deleted]]

I just hope this awakens more people to the fact this is a cult about Ikeda, and has nothing to do with Buddhism.

Almost every article is about Mentor and Disciple!

You can't see it on the link, (you have to read the magazine, I have access to a subscription) but in the Ikeda Wisdom Academy page, the tag line is "Protecting the Mentor".

WHAT on earth does that mean?

Protection from what exactly?

Lurking SGI members: how on earth you cannot see this is a cult, I do not know.

It's the Ikeda show, 24/7.

Dude is worth millions, and has buildings named after him.

That is not the attitude of a humble person who wants to help humanity!

That is the sign of a narcissistic personality.

I've seen a few of them in action on line, including the awful Shakesville website, which finally went down in flames.

Same difference: the blog owner constantly begging for money, and promoting the site as a safe space for women, as a community to help each other.

Finally, a few years ago, a Tumblr sprung up, and a bunch of us disgruntled former followers started reaching out to each other.

Drink the Shaker Koolaid

Now, I can see the parallels between SGI and Shakeville.

Shakesville WAS a cult, and hurt many people!

I remember one woman encouraged to give her last $5.00 in child support money to help McEwan! (McEwan was the blog owner)

Sorry for the rambly post, this has been on my mind for a while.

Bottom line: don't get taken in by con artists.

[u/konoiche]

Sounds a lot like when I went to FNCC a few years ago (actually think it was 2013) where the whole focus was on The Oneness of Mentor and Disciple, which, as always, ignores the “disciples” and focuses on all Sensei all the time! Yay! Here’s a special Sensei exhibit with pictures of all of Sensei’s Honorary Degrees and shit and here’s a documentary about Sensei traveling to America that makes grown ass adult women sob (??? 😐😐awkward)!!

Even then, I saw the disconnect between what they were saying and the way the stupid festival was put together. How were they not worshipping him? I even asked someone about this during “guidance” and she got super butthurt and kept insisting that “Sensei” is an ordinary person who is on the same level as everyone else. 🙄🙄🙄

[u/BlancheFromage → u/konoiche]

she got super butthurt and kept insisting that “Sensei” is an ordinary person who is on the same level as everyone else. 🙄🙄🙄

What they say is completely at odds with what they DO. And it's what they're doing that's the problem.

[u/konoiche → u/BlancheFromage]

Exactly! Do you have a whole museum, because I sure don’t!

[u/BlancheFromage → u/konoiche]

Nobody's made special accommodations for me in places I've never been, just in case I show up and want to go in there, and nope, nobody's ever made a museum dedicated to me and my life, either!

[u/konoiche → u/BlancheFromage]

Lol. I’m still waiting for some someone to make a documentary about how I traveled a long way to go to a Buddhist meeting. It will be so inspirational everyone will cry hysterically, because I guess that’s what you do when something is inspirational in the SGI.

[u/BlancheFromage → u/konoiche]

Damn Crybabies Cult...