By
receiving faith (shinjin) and saying the Name of Amida we enter, in this life,
in the stage of the truly settled for birth in the Pure Land, where we’ll
actually go after death, and where we’ll immediately attain Buddhahood
(Nirvana). This is also called the stage of non-retrogression, the stage of
definite assurance, the group of the rightly established stage, the stage equal
to perfect Enlightenment, the stage equal with Maitreya, etc.
Here are some
passages related with this stage:
„If one
is mindful of that Buddha’s infinite power and
merit,
One will
instantly enter the stage of definite
assurance.
So I am always mindful of Amida”[1]
"When
we, ordinary people filled with evil passions, the multitudes defiled by karmic
evil and subject to birth and death, attain the faith and practice transferred
by Amida for our going forth, we will immediately join the Mahayana group of
the rightly established stage. Because we dwell in the rightly established
stage, we unfailingly reach Nirvana".[2]