Shinjin is freedom from death

Meeting with Amida Buddha after
being born in the Pure Land at the end of life
(source: amidanet.com)

Some say that we, nembutsu followers, live our daily life in a permanent obsession with death. But I say we live a life of relaxation and gratitude because the greatest matter of death and afterlife has already been solved for us by Amida Buddha.

We know we are free not only of the consequences of death which follows the end of this life, but of all deaths and rebirths of samsaric existence. We know that nobody we love in this life, or we have loved in the innumerable lives of the past, will ever be separated from us by death, because we’ll save them all once we attain Buddhahood in the Pure Land of Amida. So, how can faith (shinjin) in Amida be called „obsession with death”, when true FREEDOM is its natural consequence!

Old dwellers and newly born in the Pure Land
dance with joy and express their gratitude to Amida
(source: amidanet.com)

Namo Amida Butsu!

May you all have a meaningful  Obon!

May all beings solve the matter of afterlife through faith in Amida Buddha!