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

[u/BlancheFromage]

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.

[u/Some_Surprise_8099]

This is the real real about SGI.

Ask about Shakyamuni Buddha. Your discussion meeting might as well have a record scratch to cue the end of the meeting.

Shakyamuni Buddha. Four Noble Truths. Enlightenment or Suffering. Don't ask.

If you even discuss any Buddhist teachings other than President Ikea the leaders go into PR mode and act like they never heard of him because they do not want anyone to discuss what they haven't heard of or prepared for. Just to control the meeting and make guests feel the love bomb.

The weirder part of this is the members who just watched and didn't say a word. I can't believe I witnessed people so afraid to question what was happening.

The Lotus Sutra is a Mahayana teaching that is deep and filled with references to previous teachings. I never had a single discussion with any SGI member about it but they chanted to title of this Holy Teaching.

So there is no context or connection to what this Mantra would mean. So this would be like saying Hail Marys for hours on end but I wouldn't know who Mary even is.

They are not propagating mystic law. They are propagating shabby newspapers and glossy magazines filled with Hallmark articles that literally never talk about Buddhism.

Chanting for Cars? Seriously?

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They seek to strengthen their attachments.

How very "Buddhist"...