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Is the Pure Land in this world or the next

Is the Pure Land of Paradise simply a world after death, or is it like a state of mind that can be reached even when alive?

Generally speaking, it seems that the Jodo sect Chinzei school explains that it is the world after death, and the Nishiyama school, the Jodo Shinshu sect, the Ji sect, and the Tendai Shinsei sect explain that it is a state of mind that can be reached without going through the process of death.

It is said that the Chinzei school sells generosity and leaves the interpretation of the details to each individual, but are there people in the Chinzei school who accept that the Pure Land of Paradise is a state of mind?
Also, I would like to know how the Ikkou school, etc. in the gap between the Jodo sect and the Ji sect explain this area.

4 Zen Responses

It really makes me want to think objectively, but...

Regarding Amitabha Buddha's Pure Land of Paradise, Shinran Shonin describes it as “the land of infinite light.”
The Buddha soil of light, which cannot be measured, is the Pure Land.

Speaking of what that light illuminates, it is explained in the sutras as “Buddha statues.”

Therefore, it is the light of the Pure Land that works to make me discover the various Buddha ways that lead me to the truth.

In the narrative expressions described in the sutras, it can be read as a world born after death, and the Pure Land expressed in such expressions is regarded as “chemical soil.” “Chemical soil” is not separate from “hoto,” which is the pure land of truth, and “chemical soil” adds a convenient role in leading to the truth for those of us who have no connection with the truth.

This is not about awakening to a true state of mind in this world through the story of being born after death.

Amitabha Buddha's wish is to deliver the truth to us using the term Namu Amida Buddha from the Pure Land, precisely because we have never reached the truth.

In other words, I think it can be said that the Pure Land is not a matter of this world or the world after, but rather a “teaching” and “work” that tries to awaken me to the truth.

If you say this, you might be disappointed to see what fiction it is, but then I'm going to talk about that if you can reach the truth with your own power without the teachings of the Pure Land, try that.

It is only through the true teachings of the Pure Land that I am untrue can continue to be made known. Isn't that strict yet thankful, down-to-earth Buddhism?

In the first place,

The Pure Land of Paradise is in the sutras.
If that were to happen, there would be no body or cover, so...

But the setting for the Pure Land of Paradise is a world where the Buddha is, isn't it?
When will the lost common man attain Buddhism?

People are often distinguished as belonging to the 00 sect, but there are various types of people within the sect.
If you're looking for the Pure Land of Paradise theory in denomination textbooks, I also feel like it would be better to seek solutions from university papers or academic research institutes of each faction.

If my personal impression is OK...
There is a section called “The Three Wicked Wishes” in Muryojukyo, and it is explained that “enlightenment cannot be said to have attained enlightenment while there is Hell, Gaki, and Beast.”
I feel that it is difficult to feel paradise in this world..

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Thank you so much for your response.
Traditional teaching and modern teaching. Also, keep in mind that there are various ways of thinking within a single cult, such as Ishizumi and Kuka.
Also, in terms of what to believe, there are viewpoints of believing in the Buddha's world and perspectives of believing in the Buddha's work.

I don't know if the person named Luffy just before becoming King of the Pirates actually exists, but there are many people who were moved by Luffy's words and actions.
I don't know any evidence that Hozo Bosatsu before he became Amida Nyorai actually existed, but I don't think it can be denied that there are people in this world who have been saved by the teachings and work of Amida Nyorai.

What a bunch of butts.

Please take care of yourself.

I will answer as a monk of the Jodo sect

I read it.
I would like teachers at Taisho University or Bukkyo University to ask for detailed teachings and religious interpretations, but I will respond as a Jodo sect monk.
As written in the Jodo Sanbu Sutra, the Pure Land of Paradise is a pure land far away. You won't be able to reach that place or state while you're alive. What's more, something so shallow and stupid like us can't reach it.

Please save Amida from the bottom of my heart, and if you say “Namu Amida Buddha Namu Amidabutsu,” please save me from the bottom of my heart, and Amida will come right in front of me and guide me at the time of death, which is on the verge of death. Close people and ancestors who went there earlier will welcome you.
Then, Amitabha passed away far away in the Western Pure Land of Paradise. Shishin Gassho Nanmu Amida Buddha

This world is filthy, it is a place that has been dirty and hurt by our greed, anger, foolishness, and worry, and Amida's Pure Land is pure land without injury at all.
I have taken the teaching of the Jodo sect, the Chinzei Shirahata school of the Jodo sect.

My hometown is Ikko-ji Temple, so it's an old Ikkō school, or Jishu temple, but I don't know the details of the teachings about the Ikkō school. As a disciple of Yoshitada Shonin, Ichijo split from the Chinzei-Shirahata school, but in the early Showa period, the Ikko school was absorbed into the Chinzei-Shirahata school, or Jodo sect.
In the past, I probably worked as a dance nembutsu at my own bō, but I haven't received that teaching in my ascetic practice, so I'm sorry I can't answer that.

Thank you so much for your response. I thought it was probably addressed to me, so I personally answered as a monk.
There are beautiful and wonderful places in this world, I saw a lot of wonderful nature, and I saw wonderful people.
It's such a wonderful world, but as long as we have our selfishness and suffering, our sins, injuries, hesitation, and suffering will not go away. There are probably people in this world who enter a state of enlightenment, but at least I can't do it, so I don't think I'll be able to reach the pure land of this world. However, I was able to encounter Buddhist teachings and nembutsu, and this is the path to the Pure Land.
Professor Ohashi of Taisho University published “Dance Nembutsu” in the Chikuma Bunko in December this year. It's written about the Ikko school. It might be helpful. How about it?

If you doubt it but nembutsu, you'll pass away

“If you doubt it but nembutsu, you will pass away.”
This is the content introduced as the words of Honen Shonin in Kenko's “Tsurezen-so.”
For example, if you pay your pension even though you doubt “whether you will be able to receive a pension in the future,” your pension will be paid when you are old enough to be paid.
This is because pensions actually exist.
The Western Pure Land of Paradise is the same and actually exists, and Amida Buddha is still in the Pure Land of Paradise today.
So if you doubt it but nenbutsu, you can pass away.
On the other hand, “Tsurenkusa” is Honen Shonen
“If you think of death as a decision, it's a decision; if you think it's uncertain, it's uncertain.”
It seems that he also said that.
No matter how much the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare explains “you can get a pension too,” it's the same as not being able to receive it (no peace of mind) for people who think “there's no way you can get it.”
Safety (you can pass away if you doubt it, then you can pass away too) may be from someone else's point of view, and peace of mind (I'm happy because I can pass away) may be from your own point of view, but both are important.
appending
After deciding to pass away, you can prepare to attain Buddhism faster in the Pure Land of Paradise by accumulating merits with nembutsu and other good deeds in this world.
Also, you can be positive if you can pass away if you pass away if you do Nembutsu no matter whether it's A or A.
It is the life of a nembutsu person where merits (success) are accumulated but sins (failure) are written off.