We were very disappointed with what happened during Black Day, 8 Jan 2017. What a lousy way to start the New Year. After one year of trying to get answers from SGM, many of us are burnt out. It’s draining us emotionally and physically.
(English text is after Chinese text below, please scroll down….)
我们对2017年1月8日黑暗之日发生的事情感到很失望。这样开年真是不吉利。在过去的一年里我们不断在向SGM索求答案，很多人都已经疲惫不堪。我们无论情感上还是身体上都消耗殆尽了。
在四个月前，我们在建立日光之前，我们做了一个关于您是否愿意签署请愿书要求ECC辞职的调查。您可以在这里查询结果。后来，我们又发起了一个投票询问人们是否会辞职。
看到了干部们在黑暗之日如何被无情开除之后，日光推测五月份还会有一轮。我们认为还不如在他们开除我们并诽谤我们反学会反先生前，主动辞职来表达抗议。这样就能维持我们的尊严，在基层以会友的身份继续斗争。作为会友我们还更有话语权，因为SGM的干部应该为会友服务，对吧？
我们相信很多干部肯定都想过辞职但又不知道这样做是否有效。我们无法确切的说，但我们敢肯定如果有很多干部都提交辞职信的话，影响力肯定是很大的。只有团结一致，人数足够，我们才能让顶层领导从傲慢的美梦中醒来。
因此，日光决定尝试一下。这就是整个过程。
1. 这是一封简单的辞职信。
https://goo.gl/forms/ynbWOHaLaPilCMjd2
2. 填写好您的姓名、职位、电子邮箱地址、日期和领导的部门。您的信息是严格保密的，我们不会给任何人透露。
3. 您在网上提交，日光再给SGM总部发电子邮件。我们还会把您的信备份给您（且只备份给您）。您的身份在我们这里很安全。
4. 我们还会打印下来，通过注册邮箱Pos Laju（快递）寄给SGM。
5. 我们发电子邮件和寄信给SGM的第一个时间节点将是2017年1月30日。
6. 第二波电子邮件和打印将会在2017年2月12日。
7. 如果您不想我们替您做的话，请自己答应这个表格，给SGM发邮件或者亲自给您的支部干部。我们之所以希望您通过日光来做这件事是因为这样我们就能统计并被您报告人数，这样您就知道是否有效。
8. 如果您最近已经辞职，想要再辞职一次以便统计人数，请再次提交。
9. 日光组织这次辞职运动的方案收到了许多基层干部的支持（Han/District/Chapter）。据我们所知，基层是给SGM带来持续改变的动力。这些人的支持给了我们新的希望，新的日光。这次斗争还将继续，充满了“与日连大圣同心”的精神。
10. 辞去干部的职位不代表我们就离开了创价学会。我们将留在创价学会，继续履行我们基于日连大圣人的信念。
11. 永远记住我们辞职是因为对SGM的管理不当感到不满，与日连宗无关。日光会继续结合3届创价学会主席的时代解读，维护创价学会根据日兴上人和日宽上人的纲领性解读总结出的对于日连宗的解读。
12. Q&A https://daylight.my/2017/01/20/questions-on-resignation/
We were very disappointed with what happened during Black Day, 8 Jan 2017. What a lousy way to start the New Year. After one year of trying to get answers from SGM, many of us are burnt out. It’s draining us emotionally and physically.
Four months ago, before we launched Daylight, we started with a survey on whether you will sign a petition letter demanding the resignation of the ECC. You can view the result here. Much later, we followed up with a poll on whether people will resign.
Looking at the inhumane way the leaders were sacked on Black Day, we think there is going to be another round in May. Before they sack us and throw slanderous accusation at us for being anti-Gakkai and anti-Sensei, we think it is better we resign as a form of protest. We retain our dignity and continue to fight in grassroot as members. We have stronger voice as a members because leaders of SGM should serve members, right?
We are quite sure many leaders have thought about resigning but many wondered how effective it is. We may not know but we are convinced that if there is a big number of leaders who tendered the letter, the message will be loud and clear. Only in unity and in numbers can we wake the top leadership up from their arrogance.
We are also aware of how difficult it is to organize a mass resignation at the grassroot while trying to keep the identity of the organizer secret. It is not easy to take a lead on organizing in case SGM leaders zoomed in to persecute the organizer. And then, how do you organize one at nationwide level?
Therefore, Daylight decide to give this a try. Here’s how it will work.
1. This is a simple resignation letter.
https://goo.gl/forms/ynbWOHaLaPilCMjd2
2. You fill up your name, email address, date and leadership area.
3. You submit online and Daylight will email to SGM HQ. We will also copy you (and only you) the letter. Your identity is safe with us.
4. We will also print and send a hard copy to SGM via registered Pos Laju.
5. First cutoff date where we will email and print to SGM is on 30 January 2017.
6. Second wave of email and printing will be on 12 February 2017.
7. If you don’t like us to do it, please feel free to print this form and email SGM or send to your Chapter leader by hand. The reason we hope you can do it via Daylight is so that we can count how many people and therefore report to you the numbers, so you know whether it is effective or not.
8. If you have recently resigned and would like to do again so we can count the number, please submit again.
9. Daylight’s initiative to organize this resignation campaign is endorsed by numerous grassroots leaders (Han/District/Chapter). As we know, grassroots is the driving force for sustainable change in SGM. This endorsement have given us new hope, a new daylight. The fight shall continue and it’s imbue with the spirit of “Same Mind with Nichiren Daishonin”.
10. Resigning as leaders doesn’t mean that we are leaving Soka Gakkai. We shall remain in the Soka Gakkai and continue practising faith based upon Nichiren Daishonin’s Gosho.
11. Always remember that we resign due to disagreement with SGM’s mismanagement practices and it has nothing related to Nichiren Buddhism. Daylight will continue to uphold Soka Gakkai’s interpretation of Nichiren Buddhism based on Nikko Shonin and Nichikan Shonin’s doctrinal interpretation in addition to contemporary interpretation of the 3 successive Presidents of Soka Gakkai.
12. Q&A from readers https://daylight.my/2017/01/20/questions-on-resignation/
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January 20, 2017 at 3:12 pm
Dear Daylight,
Thank you for the effort in organising/ coordinating the resignation campaign. You’ve highlighted the thoughts of many who are disappointed with the recent action taken by SGM. I have questions and doubt in which I would like Daylight to respond before I tender my resignation thru Daylight.
1) I want to have the guarantee that Daylight will still be with SGM and will not cross over or be in favour to any other organisation hereafter. This is because I will not submit my resignation to a third party who will cross over to another organisation as I am strongly against joining other organisations. I will continue to stay on as a member of Soka Gakkai Malaysia. Please be truthful with me on your reply.
2) Will Daylight reveal my identity to anyone including SGM and Justice leaders?
3) If I want to compile resignations of leaders in my area and submit as a group to Daylight, is it possible ? Is Daylight open for further communication to have the special arrangement? Any email correspondence that I could be in contact with?
I hope Daylight can reply to these questions above thru a new post. And the new post will be the evidence in which Daylight would need to uphold. You can quote my questions in your new post. I give you the permission to do so. Thank you.
Rissho Jonin.
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January 20, 2017 at 10:02 pm
Thanks for voicing your concern. We replied as a post https://daylight.my/2017/01/20/daylight-is-a-nba-spy/
Hope you don’t mind the title 🙂
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January 21, 2017 at 3:36 pm
I’m more concerned about how I can take care of members if I lose my position as leader. Who will conduct discussion meetings? And who else will check and balance SGM?
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January 21, 2017 at 3:56 pm
Hi Upset1980, we have just answered your questions in the “Q&A on resignation letter from readers”. Please take a look there.
https://daylight.my/2017/01/20/questions-on-resignation/
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January 21, 2017 at 5:24 pm
My opinion:
I think that there are two ways to have our voices heard. One is to hit the bottom line (money $$), which, I think it’s happening already seeing the drop in gokuyo turnout last October. The other is to act on your dissatisfaction by resigning to show SGM that there is a big percentage of people who disagree with how things are being run.
Let’s look at what-if you don’t resign? If the justice blood flows inside you and you decide not to resign, are you able to carry out your duties effectively as leaders? Will you parrot “trust GD” in discussion meetings? Will you ask members to perform gokuyo? How can you say all this with a straight face? Are you indirectly misleading your members because you can’t even get it past yourself?
Maybe you want to retain your leadership so you can fight. What happens when you continue to voice out? You will be labeled, blacklisted and being watched. It’s just a matter of time before you will be unfairly dismissed on the grounds of bad records just like the rest. What then? Your names are publicly declared as being sacked. You became members. Other leaders/members will look at you as though you are a criminal. They will whispered behind your back. Do you think you still want to come out for meetings? And if you don’t want to come out for activities, then what happens to your faith? We can’t be practicing for oneself.
Or maybe you still want to be leaders but decide to keep quiet, practice at home, you just didn’t want to rock the boat, let all this go away, “whatever they want to do, they do la”. If that is the case, are you acting with cowardice (hope you are not offended)? Are you submissive and obedient? Are you superstitious that standing for truth (and going against SGM) will create bad karma?
Now what happens if you resign. Firstly, as a member, all other SGM leaders should “serve” you because what is a religious organizations if it doesn’t work for its believers. As such, you are able to demand answers to what’s happening. Keep on asking for answers. How else can they bad mouth you? The worse they could do is send more senior people to dialogue with you but from other members point of views, you are just raising concerns and asking for answers.
Also, as a members, you can continue to do kosen-rufu, right? You can continue to share during discussion meetings, come out for activities, you can still shakhabuku new friends. In fact, not having to do those administration duties of leaders freed us up to do more home visiting, chanting and talking to new people. We can spend more time with our families and friends whom we can share Buddhism with them.
That’s how I feel that mass resignation can be effective and productive… and we keep our sanity too.
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