-fragment from a letter to a friend-
Shinjin is just a
simple faith, a simple entrusting to Amida
Buddha in the matter of your rebirth in the
Pure Land.
It is not a mind-created intellectual system or a certain imposed state of
mind. So please, do not force your mind and heart into always thinking the
right thought, or to feel the right feeling…. You are who you are, an ordinary
person with ups and downs, with moments of joy, and moments of sadness or
depression. Indeed, there is not easy to be an unenlightened person, and no one
leads an easy life here in samsara. But what you must never forget is that you
are accepted as you are by Amida Buddha and that your birth in his
Pure Land
is assured at the end of your physical body. No matter how you live or how you
die, you will surely go there, if you simply entrust yourself to Amida.
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