Prologue 101

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

KGSS III: 104

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.