If you want to say “Namu Amida Butsu” even once, but with your sincere wish of “being born in Amida Pure Land”, this ichi-nen is the most difficult thing to reach. To pronounce Namu Amida Butsu, is not so difficult. What is difficult to get it is the state of mind in which it should be pronounced.
Queen Vaidehi said to Sakyamuni Buddha: “I have only one wish. I want to be born in Amida Buddha Jodo.”And she said this with sincere heart and mind. Sakyamuni Buddha answered; “ Look around. You are already there.” Sakyamuni Buddha said so, because Ojo is the symbolic event. Queen Vaidehi was physically still in her prison, but her mind was the Jodo.
Ojo marks the beginning of Shinjin process, which may go on quite a long time. we will be given the life in genso-eko, the life of receiving and giving, the life of learning and teaching.
Genso-eko process doesn’t start in any remote future, Genso-eko activity of receiving and giving back starts at very moment of shinjin. Amida guides us and at the same time we are able to pass some of His guidance to others. We are all time helped, but it makes us able to help others. And all we do on this level belong do Amida Buddha and it is free from hakarai, it is pure and right. We let Hongan work through us. This is genso-eko.
