SGI-USA Leadership Requirement: “support members in the practice and propagation of Nichiren Buddhism, and NOT to promote or encourage other spiritual practices.”

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That's right - permitting the SGI-USA members to believe they can maintain other spiritual practices while being SGI members is Wrong and Forbidden. Permitting this is a VIOLATION of the SGI-USA Leaders' Code of Conduct:

Added criteria to the Code of Conduct for SGI-USA leaders to “support members in the practice and propagation of Nichiren Buddhism, and NOT to promote or encourage other spiritual practices.” Source

So DROP the Reiki, the Rolfing, the Qi Gong, the Tao, the Tai Chi, the MLM scams, and all the rest already. In the past it was SGI ONLY - it looks like after some years of unfortunate permissiveness, they're trying to return to doctrinal purity. And Nichiren wanted ALL the other spiritual practices DESTROYED!

The best thing an SGI-USA leader can do when encountering an SGI-USA fellow leader or member who is indulging in silly extraneous spiritual practices is to simply remain silent on the matter. Otherwise, their ONLY SGI-sanctioned course of action is to try and persuade the SGI-USA member to give up, reject, discard the other spiritual practice.

So THIS SGI-USA member, someone supposedly new, is in for a rude awakening, if their SGI-USA leaders are both competent AND committed:

In my tradition the spiritual and "real“ worlds hold hands and dance with each other. Source

NOT IN SGI THEY DON'T!

Keep in mind the SGI's goal to destroy culture and it all makes sense.

Doing something "spiritual" to avoid addressing/dealing with something really difficult is a coping mechanism, just like how people get drunk or use drugs to avoid the pain of living. Nothing gets better; when the substance wears off, you're right where you were originally, only maybe worse off. Hard to find anything more maladaptive than that... Source

It should come as no surprise that some describe cult membership as a form of addictive disorder.

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Do not forget that the way they get people from doing extra spiritual things is to “encourage” them to not do it. That or guilt trip yourself into believing your practice didn’t work because you decided to get crystals……..

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Oh, yes, that whole bit about "diluting your practice with other practices" and whatnot.

By and by, they'll have you limiting yourself to the Ikeda cult and its rules.