Amida Buddha is here now, preaching the Dharma;
Father is present, no need to worry about our birth
in the Pure Land.
Listening
to the Dharma until you can perceive the Tathagata is truly honorable. In the course of doing this, you may encounter hundreds or
even thousands of situations. When dealing with these situations, the Buddha
Dharma that you have learnt will be a test. Without hitting the wall, a
person’s ‘eye of the mind’—the Eye of Buddha or Wisdom-Eye—will never open.
Hit the
wall, hit the wall! Hit the wall quickly and completely!
This mind is
intractable, but even if it were made obedient, the Pure Land is just not a
place that you and I can go with an obedient mind. The Pure Land is a place
that we can go only by relying on the power of Buddha.
This is why
it is said that ‘The power of the Buddha surpasses conceivability; never has there been such power’ (Chapter on Shinjin from Kyogyoshinsho).
Zuiken Sama
Chih-chüeh of the Ch'an school praises the practicer of the nembutsu:
How wondrous! The power of the Buddha surpasses conceivability; never has there been such power.
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