Nikken's End #3B: The Purges Begin +^

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Nikken's End #3B: The Purges Begin


Nikken's End ? or NIKKEN ZENned ? You be the judge ...



. "What distinguished the Indian system from that of the
. ancient Western world is the absence of slavery. The
. caste system made formal slavery unnecessary in ancient
. India."
.
. - from The Two Classes of the Four-Fold Caste System, by
. Sudheer Birodkar.



In Nikken's Threefold World, which is "the world of unenlightened beings who transmigrate within the Six Paths" ** [Hell, Hunger, Animality, Anger, Humanity and Heaven] ... the 3rd chapter describes the structure of Nikken's World of Animality.

** Soka Gakkai Dictionary of Buddhism




____ Background for Toxic Zen Stories ____________

https://groups.google.com/group/alt.zen/msg/b4ad0ce368728934?hl=en

________ Table of Contents _______________________
.
. Notable Purges In History
.
. Stalin And The Moscow Trials
.
. The Wider Purge
.
. The Purge You Didn't Notice
.
. Obayashi As First Kulak
.
. Definition of Animality (Chikusho)
.
. Getting Some Help
.
. The Survivor Gita
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________ Notable Purges In History _______________

From the Wikipedia ... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purge)

. The purge has been a political tool throughout recorded
. history.
.
. In the era of Republican Rome, Marius proscribed Sullan
. supporters after he and Cinna ousted Cnaeus Octavius; Sulla
. followed with even more brutal proscriptions against Marian
. supporters when he came into the dictatorship. The Second
. Triumvirate instituted more proscriptions some forty years
. afterward after taking control of Rome from Caesar's
. murderers.
.
. The earliest use of the term itself was the English Civil
. War's Pride's Purge. In 1648, the moderate members of the
. English Long Parliament were purged by the army. Parliament
. would suffer subsequent purges under the Commonwealth
. including the purge of the entire House of Lords. Counter-
. revolutionaries such as royalists were purged as well as
. more radical revolutionaries such as the Levellers. After
. the Restoration, obstinate republicans were purged while
. some fled to New England.
.
. The French Revolution saw revolutionary factions purging
. each other. The most famous purge was Robespierre's Terror
. which ended with him being purged as well. After the fall of
. Napoleon, all those associated with revolutionary activity
. were purged.
.
. Purges are often associated with the Stalinist and Maoist
. regimes. Those who were purged (among them artists,
. scientists, teachers, people in the military, but also many
. long-time communists who dared to disagree with the party
. leadership) were sent to labor camps or executed. The most
. notorious purge was the Great Purge initiated by Joseph
. Stalin during the 1930s. Deng Xiaoping was known for the
. distinction of returning to power multiple times after
. surviving multiple purges.
.
. The Nazis also engaged in purges, most notably in the Night
. of the Long Knives (1934) and the mass reprisals against
. Adolf Hitler's opponents following the July Plot (1944).

Of these kinds of purges, the purge most likely surrounding a shaky succession (like the hand-off of the imaginary Transfer Box, between Nikken Abe 67th and Nichinyo/Gikan Hayase 68th) ... is the Stalinist Purge.




________ Stalin And The Moscow Trials ____________

From the Wikipedia ... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge)

. Between 1936 and 1938 three Moscow Trials of former senior
. Communist Party leaders were held. The defendants were
. accused of conspiring with the western powers to assassinate
. Stalin and other Soviet leaders, dismember the Soviet Union
. and restore capitalism.

So accusations of dealings with the Soka Gakkai or the Reform Priests, whether true or not, become sufficient proof to render one of the priests, vulnerable to a purge.

. The first trial was of 16 members of the so-called
. "Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terrorist Centre," held in August
. 1936, at which the chief defendants were Grigory Zinoviev
. and Lev Kamenev, two of the most prominent former party
. leaders. All were sentenced to death and executed.

The accusations of misconduct are immaterial. The clearing out of opposition to the changes being brought about in the next stage, which is the consolidation of power, will affect anyone who is not a complete and utter minion of the power elite.

. The second trial in January 1937 involved 17 lesser figures
. including Karl Radek, Yuri Piatakov and Grigory Sokolnikov.
. Thirteen defendants were shot, the remainder received terms
. of imprisonment in labor camps where they soon died.
.
. The third trial, in March 1938, included 21 defendants
. alleged to belong to the so-called "Bloc of Rightists and
. Trotskyites," led by Nikolai Bukharin, former head of the
. Communist International, former Prime Minister Alexei Rykov,
. Christian Rakovsky, Nikolai Krestinsky and Yagoda. All the
. leading defendants were executed.
.
. There was also a secret trial before a military tribunal of
. a group of Red Army generals, including Mikhail
. Tukhachevsky, in June 1937.
.
. Some Western observers who attended the trials said that
. they were fair and that the guilt of the accused had been
. established. They based this assessment on the confessions
. of the accused, which were freely given in open court,
. without any apparent evidence that they had been extracted
. by torture or drugging.
.
. The British lawyer and MP Denis Pritt, for example, wrote:
. "Once again the more faint-hearted socialists are beset with
. doubts and anxieties," but "once again we can feel confident
. that when the smoke has rolled away from the battlefield of
. controversy it will be realized that the charge was true,
. the confessions correct and the prosecution fairly
. conducted."
.
. It is now known that the confessions were given only after
. great psychological pressure had been applied to the
. defendants. From the accounts of former OGPU officer
. Alexander Orlov and others the methods used to extract the
. confessions are known: repeated beatings, torture, making
. prisoners stand or go without sleep for days on end, and
. threats to arrest and execute the prisoners' families. For
. example, Kamenev's teenage son was arrested and charged with
. terrorism. After months of such interrogation, the
. defendants were driven to despair and exhaustion.

Once the political enemies are finished off, the sense of relief in everyone else who is a "Survivor" is palpable.

This relief is short-lived, however. The worst has not yet begun.




________ The Wider Purge _________________________

. Eventually almost all of the Bolsheviks who had played
. prominent roles during the Russian Revolution of 1917, or in
. Lenin's Soviet government afterwards, were executed. Out of
. six members of the original Politburo during the 1917
. October Revolution who lived until the Great Purge, Stalin
. himself was the only one who survived. Four of the other
. five were executed. The fifth, Leon Trotsky, went into exile
. in Mexico after being expelled from the Party but was
. murdered by a Soviet agent in 1940. Of the seven members
. elected to the Politburo between the October Revolution and
. Lenin's death in 1924, four were executed, one (Tomsky)
. committed suicide and two (Molotov and Kalinin) lived. Of
. 1,966 delegates to the 17th Communist Party congress in 1934
. (the last congress before the trials), 1,108 were arrested
. and nearly all died.
.
. The trials and executions of the former Bolshevik leaders
. were, however, only a minor part of the purges ...
.
. While kulaks were "liquidated as class", on July 30, 1937
. the NKVD Order no. 00447 was issued, directed against "ex-
. kulaks" and "kulak helpers", among other anti-Soviet
. elements, see NKVD troika. This order was notable in several
. respects, becoming a blueprint for a number of other actions
. of NKVD targeting specific categories of people.

The Kulak's worst crime was of being competent in commerce. Their ability to do commerce on the local level was the possible seed for a counter-revolution. Therefore, they had to go.

. A series of national operations of the NKVD was carried out
. during 1937-1940, justified by the fear of the fifth column
. in the expectation of war with "the most probable
. adversary", i.e., Germany, as well as according to the
. notion of the "hostile capitalist surrounding", which wants
. to destabilize the country. Polish operation of the NKVD was
. the first of this kind, setting an example of dealing with
. other targeted minorities. Many such operations were
. conducted on a quota system. NKVD local officials were
. mandated to arrest and execute a specific number of
. "counter-revolutionaries," produced by upper officials based
. on various statistics. .

So, in the end, the thing that threatens an incompetent elite that wields power ... is any competent sub-group that does not.

And a competent sub-group that can be crushed, MUST be crushed. The drive to crush the potential threat is overwhelming. Any vehicle will do, and most likely the one that does the job finally, is only the last in a series of failed attempts. And that ultimate successful subjugation is done with a vengeance.




________ The Purge You Didn't Notice _____________

There was a purge done in Nichiren Shoshu that you may have only partly noticed.

Of course, there was the embarrassing growth and success of the competent Soka Gakkai, that showed the Nichiren Shoshu Priesthood for the negligent and lazy parasites that they were. Then, specious charges were flung at President Ikeda, which didn't do it at first, then later something stuck well enough, and the Soka Gakkai was purged completely in the hope that some would submit, but the numbers of cowards and traitors to the Law itself, were too small. Those purges were inneffectual because of the strength and core determination of the membership to do Kosen Rufu.

But that's not the purge that I'm talking about.

The purge that I'm talking about was completely effective and was done IN PLAIN SIGHT, but went unrecognized for what it was.

Only now, in the light of the story of the missing Transfer Box, which is the heritage of the High Priest of Nichiren Shoshu, is it possible to understand the methods and purpose of the seemingly insane actions of Nikken Abe, the 67th High Priest of Nichiren Shoshu.

Now, for the first time, the truth can be seen for what it is !!!

Only the Transfer Box could give Nikken an unchallengable hold on the past, present and the future of the Nichiren Shoshu Priesthood. Without it, his hold would remain tenuous, and his legacy of control, insecure.

In the prologue to the book "The Self-Appointed High Priest", is recorded only the FIRST effort to retrieve the Transfer Box by the false High Priest two days after the death of the previous High Priest Nittatsu, by attempting to extract it from Nittatsu's family in the person of his son-in-law Sugano.

After that failure to retrieve the Transfer Box, and in a pattern of terrorist actions that only the mind of Nikken Abe and the Al Qaeda commander of Iraq, Zarqawi, could understand ... the legacy of Nittatsu Shonin the 66th High Priest of Nichiren Shoshu was destroyed, piece by piece, until the last and greatest piece, the Sho Hondo, was the last remaining hostage that Nikken Abe held a knife to the throat of. True to his brother Zarqawi, Nikken acted grimly, as the butcher he is.

Without ever going public, the Hosoi sons and Nittatsu's son-in-law watched in horror as Nikken Abe unspeakably reduced every single thing that Nittatsu ever did to rubble, and yet they would not give up the one thing that Nikken would destroy everything for, the legitimizing possession of the Transfer Box for Nichiren Shoshu.

And they were right not to, for having gained possession of the Transfer Box, Nikken would have had to proceed to do the exact same series of actions, so as not to appear guilty of extortion. And of course, there is the evil joy of gloating over subjugated victims, by teaching them a lesson in persistent determination.

So, this is real reason why the Sho Hondo had to go.

The Soka Gakkai was not even part of it !! We were just some extra pieces on the Go playing board.

Atari !!!




________ Obayashi As First Kulak _________________

Someone finally perceived the threat that Obayashi, as head of the Overseas Bureau, posed to any succession of the High Priest. As a competent and corrupt head of a network of priests around the world, any small set of temples in Japan could be joined with the network under his control and that would be seen as Nichiren Shoshu. Indeed, after the departure of several temples in Japan to the reform movement, that clearly IS NICHIREN SHOSHU !!

So, whither goest the Overseas Bureau, goest Nichiren Shoshu.

This was too much of a threat and so in August, 2 months after the publishing in English of "The Self-Appointed High Priest", and 3 months before the announcement of Nikken's handover of the High Priest's position to Gikan Hayase, Obayashi got canned in a forced retirement. And this was a castration to Nichijyun Fujimoto's hopes for an after-succession coup d'etat. (He's speaking in a subdued and higher pitch now, I'll wager.)

And Obayashi was replaced at the head of the Overseas Bureau by a handsome fellow, who is unconnected by any close family ties, and who can be easily controlled or disposed of.

(This introduces an inherent weakness and inefficiency in the organization. But winning isn't everything, it's the ONLY thing.)

Having lost three temples in court challenges when the Transfer Box could not be produced, Nichiren Shoshu is now in trouble and must seize the remaining temples under close family control, before any more important temples are lost.

Shiba in San Francisco and Kawabe in Washington were only the ignorable beginning. It is only a matter of a very brief time before all the major temples not now under the control of the extended group of the 6 clans (Hayase, Abe/Takanos, Ishii, Kimura, Imano) ... will be brought under direct control of family members.

The window of opportunity for the exodus of those vulnerable, non-family priests in those temples is quickly closing.

However, the issue of the Tranfer Box being published now in English, makes a successful court challenge possible and even likely for both Overseas Bureau temples and Nichiren Shoshu temples in Japan, for the first time. This is precisely BECAUSE it is internationally public and cannot be hidden any more from the view of non-Japanese eyes.

Now is the time to take your temple over to the other side. After the consolidation, it will be too late. Then the next and closer consolidation will occur, as the old Hokikai faction finally reaps the benefits of a century of maneuvering ...




________ Definition of World of Animals (Chikusho) ______

From the SGI Dictionary:
http://www.nichirenlibrary.org/en/dic/Content/W/46#para-0

world of animals ［畜生界］ (Jpn chikushō-kai): Also, realm of animals or world of animality. The third of the Ten Worlds and one of the three, and the four, evil paths. When viewed as a state of life, the world of animals is a condition governed by instinct, in which one has no sense of reason or morality. Beings or persons in this world stand in fear of the strong but despise and prey upon those weaker than themselves. In The Object of Devotion for Observing the Mind, Nichiren defines the characteristic of this world as "foolishness," which is one of the three poisons.




________ Getting Some Help _______________________

If you are a Nichiren Shoshu Priest, or a Hokkeko member from anywhere in the world, and are thinking about switching to the SGI call (310) 260-8900 or contact the Headquarters at SGI Plaza:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Soka+Gakkai+International+-+USA/@34.0205633,-118.4979288,17z/data=!4m13!1m7!3m6!1s0x80c2a4c8ce37f2e7:0x918d68e31aa2b5e4!2s606+Wilshire+Blvd,+Santa+Monica,+CA+90401!3b1!8m2!3d34.0205589!4d-118.4957401!3m4!1s0x80c2a4c8bc1aaae7:0x8b8af06c5597de63!8m2!3d34.0208086!4d-118.4958896?hl=en

Tell them that you are a Nichiren Shoshu Priest or Hokkeko member, and wish to speak to someone about the SGI, and what to do.




________ The Survivor Gita _______________________

Who will replace the "Sen'ou Nezumi" ?

Nikken, the Usurper King of the Rats at Taisekiji, has been replaced by Nichinyo, who is an angry member of the elite, due to too many blows to the head. A little punchy, and brief in his rule, since Nikken has plans for his son to take over.

One thing that is known for certain: There will be a new Rat King. And quickly there will be another.

Another thing that is known for certain: All the alliances will change, and more than once. Anyone that has watched Survivor knows this.

Rule Number Zero:

The War of the Rodents can only be won by ... King Rat.




More to come ... These questions will be answered !!!

-Chas.

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LS Chap. 16 .....

All harbor thoughts of yearning
and in their minds thirst to gaze at me.
When living beings have become truly faithful,
honest and upright, gentle in intent,
single-mindedly desiring to see the Buddha
not hesitating even if it costs them their lives,
then I and the assembly of monks
appear together on Holy Eagle Peak.
At that time I tell the living beings
that I am always here, never entering extinction,
but that because of the power of an expedient means
at times I appear to be extinct, at other times not,
and that if there are living beings in other lands
who are reverent and sincere in their wish to believe,
then among them too
I will preach the unsurpassed Law.