A General Discussion on the Pure Land School

The Pure Land School Dharma is the most perfect and the most instantaneous, the simplest and the easiest.  It is a Dharma-door that everyone can cultivate, and one and all can practice it.

Hence, it is described as "universally inclusive of the three types of faculties (upper, middling and lower capabilities), and gathering in both the keen and dull."

One only has to single-mindedly uphold the great name, "Namo Amitabha Buddha," the teaching host of the Land of Ultimate Bliss of the West.  When one recites this name and reaches a point of single concentration, then one will definitely be reborn in the West from a lotus flower. 

When that lotus blooms, one will see the Buddha, be enlightened to patience with non-production, and attain irreversibility from  anuttarasamyaksambodhi.

Therefore, if all cultivators only become replete with deep faith and earnest vows, and actually realize the three requisites of Faith, Vows, and Practice, they will most certainly reach their destination. 

It is my hope that all of you good people will urge each other onwards!

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