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Is there a difference between sentient beings in hell and salvation in the human world?

I learned that out of the six paths, the human world is the only world that can be saved by listening to Buddhism, but when I asked chat GDP, it showed content that suggests the possibility of salvation, saying that even if you fall into hell, the salvation of Amida Buddha will arrive (from the Jizo Bosatsu Hongan Sutra).
The mainstream teaching of the Jodo Shinshu is that you can be saved while you are alive, but is there a difference in salvation?
For example, saving sentient beings in hell only means rescuing them from hell, not freeing them from reincarnation; in other words, saving them from hell, but if later salvation is born as a human being, does that mean please listen to Buddhism and be saved because of that relationship? Or will they go to the Pure Land in the same way as the human world? which one is it?
Or is it like Amitabha doesn't come to hell to be saved in the first place?

4 Zen Responses

There is no difference in the “salvation” itself that can be obtained

Passing away is not entirely equal to liberation. From the literal meaning of “born in the past,” I think it means reincarnating into the Pure Land of Paradise presided over by Amida Nyorai, and completing liberation there. If there are monho and nembutsu as necessary conditions for death, death is not possible unless you are born with a human condition.
What form and what path you will be born in later generations depends only on the work of each individual's life. Just because you were born on a human path doesn't necessarily mean that future generations will be able to pave the way to the Pure Land. Conversely, there is a natural possibility that sentient beings other than humanity will reincarnate into humanity as a result of karma in the present world from their previous lives, previous previous lives, and previous previous lives.
The point is that being born in a humane way is not a separate “salvation” in itself.
If being allowed to enter the course of humanity → death is Amida Buddha's “salvation,” then each sentient being in the six paths will eventually complete liberation by entering the same course, so I think it can be said that there is no difference in the “salvation” itself that can be obtained sooner or later.

Is hell a different world

It's important to try to read characters accurately, but I think it's also important to read to try to capture the outline with sensitivity

When I say “the world” of hell and the “world” of humans, it's easy to read it as if the stars are different, as if they were living on another earth, but hell, hungry ghosts, and humans “the place itself is the same.”
In modern terms, it might make more sense if you say it's a “mental state story”

Just as people who have drowned in love don't listen when they say “you should break up with that guy,” people living in a world of hell can't hear the teaching of salvation.
This is because “they don't have ears to listen,” and people in the human world next to them are saved by the same teachings

How about interpreting the teachings of Amitabha Buddha as being audible even to “people living in hell with their ears closed”

Light, name

The following article is in the web version of the Jodo Sect Dictionary.
Things related to Amitabha Buddha's salvation through light
https://jodoshuzensho.jp/daijiten/index.php/%E5%9C%9F%E8%91%AC%E3%81%AE%E6%96%87
It's about hearing the name of Amitabha Buddha, passing away, and being led to a state of immortality.
https://jodoshuzensho.jp/daijiten/index.php/%E8%81%9E%E5%90%8D%E5%BE%97%E7%9B%8A%E5%81%88
Note, there are no three evils (three types of creatures) in the Pure Land of Paradise: Hell, Hunger, and Beast.
In other words, if you could pass away in the Pure Land of Paradise, heaven (including Ashura?) It probably means you can either become a human.
In any case, those of us who were born as humans and came across Buddhism can call (say) nembutsu and pray for the paradise of the past.
I don't know if people in hell also have the opportunity to work in Buddhism, but even in hell, if you can touch the light of Amida Buddha or hear the name of Amitabha Buddha, you can be saved, which is the original wish of Amida Buddha, and I think the Buddhist spirit of great compassion is something that Buddhists who believe in Amitabha greatly sympathize with.
People who believe in Amitabha first rejoice that their salvation has been confirmed by nembutsu, and then they also look at the salvation of others, saying, “It would be nice if all sentient beings, including hell, were saved.”

What do you call hell, and what do you call the human world?

Tenjo Jinjin: Shura Gaki-zaiji: Hell Realm
This heart, even if there is a sense of happiness or satisfaction, does not move towards higher humanity or spirituality from there is called the heavenly world.

The mind is bound by the two sides of victory and loss, advantage and disadvantage, beauty, good and evil, and hardship, and the mind that is bound by relative notions and logic and cannot escape from it is called the human world.

A mind with anger, hatred, a sense of confrontation, hate, and hostility is a shamanic world.

There are people who deviate from the path of man, people who do evil deeds, gods and Buddhas, etc., and those who despise heaven, earth, nature, and are caught up in an egocentric way of life, and those who are caught up in egoism are in the hungry world.

It must be called the Animal Realm, those who commit heinous acts, terrorists, dictatorship, human rights oppression, bizarre crimes, and people who do unexpected acts.

Also, those who are trampled upon by such malice, those who are oppressed, and all those who are in doubt or suffering cannot but be called the world of hell.

In other words, first of all, the six ways only exist in this world. Even though it's called the six ways of the world after death or the six ways of others, it is my heart to think about that.
The world that loops infinitely through those six worlds, continues to seek only things, money, and honor without being born, and tries to cherish “only myself,” is probably an infinite sense of reincarnation and hesitation.
That's why Buddhism preaches the idea of bodhisattva. This is because a heart without bodhisattva or faith only increases self-opinion, ego, self-love, self-preservation, and egoism.
And those six paths are all one heart. Hell and the heavenly world all have one heart. The human world is also created by this mind.
If we trace the origin of ideals and sectarian divisions, we are all united.
The same brush for drawing Buddha and drawing demons.
The heart that is saved by remembering Mida is the same heart, and the heart that goes to the demon world of the ego without causing devotion are all the same.
That's why what should truly be saved is not limited to hell or the human world, and it is Amida Buddha, Buddha's Sukui, that saves Isshin, whose self continues to be infinitely reincarnated.
Even if Chat ❝ GPT ❞ gives a decent answer, it doesn't give an answer with true salvation from the Buddha. If so, salvation will eventually be necessary there as well.
Speaking of where that heart that seeks salvation and answers is, let's say it's your heart, your heart, your heart.
Let's pursue how salvation is, how salvation is.
Can we be saved if we have reasonable answers or answers? No, it's understanding, gatten, and persuasion; it's not salvation.
Salvation is when humans are also saved from the thoughts, concepts, and logic of the human world.
Namu Amida Buddha.