On Thursday, September 16, 2021 at 5:09:03 AM UTC-7,
brad...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi Chas,
>
> When the moon is in its gibbous waxing phase, you could consider to be a
> bit nicer, and think of your own hypocrisy before attacking others. Did you
> even notice the little compliment I gave you?
>
I never give nor receive alms from the icchantika/issendai/incorrigible disbeliever, simply because Nichiren Daishonin says not to. So, I don't notice when they are requested nor offered. Their purpose is to incur appreciation of and gratitude towards the demon inside that inspires their offering, or the other way around: a grateful demon feeling the love.
> As for the QAnon training manual--It sounds like you have insider knowledge,
> and you seem to want to use this forum to distort teachings. Perhaps *your*
> items 1-4 are the schema of *your* source code?
>
You walk, talk and quack like a QAnon and follow that scheme precisely, whereas I've been here for almost 20 years doing this, way before the QAnon scat was dropped. Nice try, but that is a prochronism.
> I'm neither for nor against Trump, but will say that no one in their right mind
> should ever stake him for another double-or-nothing bet on politics. Assuming
> that he would lose again, how would he pay off four or eight times what he
> already can not pay off? In terms of lives lost?
>
Like I said, a QAnon cannot resist talking the talk and walking that talk: out blows the Trump-love chunks.
> Today I agree with you about staying on topic, so why have you, in your latest
> stream of hateful emails, decided to change the topic to insulting Katie Higgins
> again and again? Haven't I already politely asked you not to do this? Should you
> be accused as a sexual retard too?
>
Like I said I neither give alms to, nor receive alms from, the likes of you, or her, and I never cease the compassionate rebuke, since that would be a Christian kindness and I am no Christian. Learn to appreciate the incessant nature of the well-earned rebukes.
> So to get back on track here, let's return to "Who's who on the Gohonzon":
>
[snip your URL offering]
>
> Shakra Devanam Indra a.k.a. Taishakuten appears fairly prominently in the
> second row of the Gohonzon, directly beneath blissful Anryugyu Bosatsu.
> This presumably is the same Shakra mentioned in the last chapter (or
> Epilogue) of the Vimalakirti Sutra.
>
> Now there is the question of whether or not Shakra Devanam Indra is the
> same as Shakra Devanam Rudra?
>
From:
https://www.sgi-usa.org/study-resources/core-concepts/the-gohonzon/diagram-of-the-gohonzon/#17
... Taishaku-tenno (Heaven King Shakra, also known as Heavenly
... King Indra): One of the main tutelary gods of Buddhism,
... together with Indra. He is also one of the twelve gods said
... to protect the world. Originally the god of thunder in
... Indian mythology he was later incorporated into Buddhism as
... a protective deity. He lives in a palace called Correct
... Views or Joyful to See in the Trayastrimsha Heaven on the
... peak of Mount Sumeru and, served by the Four Heavenly
... Kings, governs the other thirty-two gods of that heaven.
...
... While Shakyamuni was engaged in bodhisattva practice, Indra
... is said to have assumed various forms to test his resolve.
... According to the first chapter of the Lotus Sutra, he
... joined the assembly on Eagle Peak, accompanied by 20,000
... retainers.
In Shinto the gods are above the Buddhas (the common mortals: all living beings), so the emperor/great leader declares some god as his ancestor and as a demi-god, demands that we poor humans must worship him (as Trump aspires to and has 30% achieved.)
In Buddhism this is reversed, all the Buddhas are precisely equal in the ceremony in the air of Juryo Chapter (16) of the Lotus Sutra (the heart of the essential teaching) when the Buddhas in the ten directions are reduced to eight directions, and all of the Buddhas are above all of the Buddhist gods, which are tutelary entities (protective) and respond to our practice in protecting us, except when slander of the Law goes unchecked, which is why I am here to check your voluminous and repeated slanders of the true teaching, and have been herr for that of your forebears. Thus, although the name is the same, the entity of Shakra/Indra in Buddhism could not be of greater difference to the eponymous Hindu entity.
[snip your remaining Hindu slander of the Buddhist god Heaven King Shakra.]
-Chas.