This chapter itself is viewed in the way that the Nembutsu is viewed in the Pure Land tradition proper. Buddha Shakyamuni expounded many ways that people can attain birth in the Pure Land of Amida, but of all the Buddhas Amida is singled out as the one to whose land one should aspire. You are searching for the true Dharma with falsehood in your mind. If your own mind were correct and fixed, you would be a man who has taken the sutra to himself. Elimination of doubt is one thing.
Faith approaches the same matter in a positive or pro-active sense.
Faith is the essential teaching of Shinran Shonin, regarded as the founder of the Jodo Shinshu , or True Teaching of the Pure Land Way, otherwise called Shin Buddhism. Return to Pure Land Buddhism Page . Richard St. Clair 's home page.