I have just found these words (see left photo), writen on September 21st, by
a Dharma friend, member of Horai Association of Jodo Shinshu on another
friend's Facebook page: "Zuiken Sensei was also known to be a manifestation of Kassapa Buddha in Japan". I decided to take a print screen and give some quick
comments.
With all due respect for the good things Zuiken Sensei and
his son, Zuio Inagaki Sensei, did for the Sangha, I publicly ask my Nembutsu
friends to stop this idol worshipping attitude. No modern teacher should be
placed on equal status with Shinran Shonin and Rennyo Shonin, and nobody should be considered or treated as a
manifestation of a Buddha. This is clearly NOT the Jodo Shinshu way of
relating with a teacher. If we allow such idolizing of our priests and teachers,
we open a very dangerous gate. Thus, everything a teacher sais or writes will
not be checked anymore through the filter of reason and no more compared with
what Shakyamuni, Shinran and Rennyo said, because..... that teacher is "the
manifestation of a Buddha".....