Conditions to believe in the Name

The late Master Zuiken Inagaki said:

"In order to ‘truly hear (believe in) the Name’, one should fulfill the following conditions:

1. One should believe in the law of causation.
2. One should believe in the Three Treasures - the Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha.
3. One should believe deeply that one has been sinking in the sea of birth-and-death for innumerable kalpas, and that one has no hope of emancipation from evil karmas, for one is full of delusion, attachment and evil passions of love-and-hatred.
4. One should have an ardent aspiration for attaining enlightenment and becoming a Buddha.
5. One should think of one's own death, which is coming at one's heels, that is, one is ever threatened by death that may come at any moment.
6. One should think that one is now at one's deathbed.
7. One should remember that at their deathbed all dying persons must experience utter darkness, fear, hopelessness and solitude.
8. One should remember that the hell-fire is waiting for one.
9. One should realize that one has no ability to practice the highest good or the highest meditation for the attainment of salvation for oneself.
10. One should realize that one is like a man who is thrown into the rough sea in the dark night.
11. One should be free from all superstitions that falsely promise exemption from diseases, calamities and poverty through prayer and worship, or through divination and fortune-telling."