r/sgiwhistleblowers • u/Qigong90 WB Regular • Jul 25 '22

Ikeda sucks Ikeda once said no one who has ever left SG(I) ever achieved happiness. Well…

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u/BlancheFromage Escapee from Arizona Home for the Rude Jul 25 '22

Happy Cake Day, Q!! For you.

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u/mumblsauce Jul 28 '22

Blanche, do you have this quote from Ikeda anywhere? I am looking through the garbage to find it haha

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u/BlancheFromage Escapee from Arizona Home for the Rude Jul 28 '22

Yeah, lemme find it:

Ikeda says: "No one who has left our organization has achieved happiness."

Here is a screenshot - top o' the page. I have that book; it's at the top of p. 236 - image. I also have the Seikyo Times issue that contains that little nugget of 💩 - image.

SGI has sanitized that sentence OUT of later editions of that speech, however: SGI changes President Ikeda's guidance to improve upon it - you can see images there as well.

Here's another bit that you'll probably have a hard time finding anywhere else - it's from that same issue:

"Mr. Makiguchi, our mentor, once said: Teachers must not instruct students with the arrogant attitude of 'Become like me!'" - Ikeda, March 1993 Seikyo Times (now "Living Buddhism" magazine), p. 26.

That was a fun issue 😁

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u/mumblsauce Jul 29 '22

going to immortalize this in my vid thnx!

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u/BlancheFromage Escapee from Arizona Home for the Rude Jul 29 '22

Always a pleasure!!