This benefit means that by
entrusting ourselves to Amida Buddha’s Primal Vow we receive His merits and
virtues which cause us to attain birth in the Pure Land:
"When
sentient beings of this evil world of the five defilements
Entrust themselves to the selected Primal Vow,
Virtues indescribable, inexplicable, and inconceivable
Fill those practicers".[1]
Entrust themselves to the selected Primal Vow,
Virtues indescribable, inexplicable, and inconceivable
Fill those practicers".[1]
„All
beings, having heard Amida’s virtuous Name,
Attain
joyful faith, rejoice in what they hear,
And call
his Name even once. The person of sincerity, Amida,
Endows
merit to them. All who aspire for birth in the Pure Land attain Birth there.
Hence, I
prostrate myself to worship him and aspire to be
born
there.'"[2]
Shinran Shonin
explained in his work “Passages on the Two Aspects of The Tathagata’s
Directing of Virtue”: