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 Nikko Shonin declared Niko’s tolerance of slander to be the “workings of the devil king,” a “betrayal of the late mentor” and an “[offense equal in gravity to committing] the seven cardinal sins.” If someone who is charged with responsibility for protecting and spreading the Daishonin’s teaching willfully distorts and arbitrarily alters the teaching, then the actions of such a person certainly represent the workings of the devil. They are the actions of a priest of the greatest evil, who is guilty of betraying the mentor and committing the seven cardinal sins. This is what Nikko Shonin taught.

These historical facts contain an important lesson. First of all, those who betrayed the mentor [Nichiren Daishonin] after his death all sought to justify themselves by making reference to some “more profound meaning” contained in his teaching, despite all documentary proof to the contrary.
In Buddhism, the offense of betraying the mentor is extremely grave. It amounts to destroying the very life of Buddhism. People who do so try to win acceptance for their false views by saying, “You should listen to what I say, irrespective of what my mentor wrote.” And if someone presents them with written proof that shows their words or actions to be wrong, they try to gloss over the contradiction by saying: “That is a superficial level of interpretation. The true meaning is found elsewhere.” President Ikeda (My Dear Friends In America, p. 177)
 
 
 

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File A Revolution Dawns
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File Spiritual Independence - An Introduction to Soka Spirit
 
File A Journey Within: Introduction - Refuting Nichiren Shoshu's Claims About Pilgrimage
 
File A Journey Within - (1) The 'Pilgrim's Progress': From Without to Within
 
File A Journey Within - (2) A Journey of Faith Within
 
File A Journey Within - (3) How Did It All Begin?
 
File A Journey Within - (4) The Same Reason Now and Then
 
File A Journey Within - (5) Misreading to Mislead
 
File A Journey Within - (6) Distorting the History of Kanazawa Persecution
 
File A Journey Within - (7) Selected Passages from Nichiren Daishonin's Writings
 
File A Journey Within - (8) Notes and References
 
File A Journey Within - (9) About the SGI-USA
 
File Confirming Our Path of Faith - Temple Issue Handbook
 
File Priests Speak Out
Why They Are Leaving Nichiren Shoshu
File Reaffirming Our Right to Happiness
On the Gohonzon Transcribed by High Priest Nichikan
File The Seattle Incident Pamphlet
 
File The Untold History of the Fuji School: The True Story of Nichiren Shoshu - (*A) Title Page, Table of Contents
 
File The Untold History of the Fuji School (*B) Foreword
 
File The Untold History of the Fuji School - (*C) Introduction
 
File The Untold History of the Fuji School - Chapter 1
 
File The Untold History of the Fuji School - Chapter 2
 
File The Untold History of the Fuji School - Chapter 3
 
File The Untold History of the Fuji School - Chapter 4
 
File The Untold History of the Fuji School - Chapter 5
 
File The Untold History of the Fuji School - Chapter 6
 
File The Untold History of the Fuji School - Chapter 7
 
File The Untold History of the Fuji School - Chapter 8
 
File The Untold History of the Fuji School - Chapter 9
 
File The Untold History of the Fuji School - Chapter 10
 
File The Untold History of the Fuji School - Chapter 11
 
File The Untold History of the Fuji School - Chapter 12
 
File The Untold History of the Fuji School - Chapter 13
 
File The Untold History of the Fuji School - Chapter 14
 
File The Untold History of the Fuji School - Chapter 15
 
File The Untold History of the Fuji School - Chapter 16
 
File The Untold History of the Fuji School - Epilogue
 
File The Untold History of the Fuji School - Appendix A
 
File The Untold History of the Fuji School - Appendix B
 
File The Untold History of the Fuji School - Index
 
File The Untold History of the Fuji School - Photographs
 
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