The Pure Land Is The Original True Mind

As we recite "Namo Amitabha Buddha" we each create and adorn our own Land of Ultimate Bliss. We each accomplish our own Land of Ultimate Bliss which is certainly not hundreds of thousands of millions of Buddhalands from here. Now, the Land of Ultimate Bliss really is hundreds of thousands of millions of Buddhalands away; and yet it doesn't go beyond the very thought we are having right now. Since it's right in our hearts, we say it's not hundreds of thousands of millions of Buddhalands from here. The Land of Ultimate Bliss is the original true heart, the true mind, of every one of us. If you obtain this heart, you will be born in the Land of Ultimate Bliss. If you don't understand your own original true heart, you will not. Amitabha Buddha and living beings are not distinct--that's why I say the Land of Ultimate Bliss is not so far away. In one thought, turn the light within. Know that originally you are the Buddha, and your original Buddhahood is just the Land of Ultimate Bliss. -- from The Song of Mindfulness of the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha, by Hsuan Hua, http://www.gbm-online.com/dharma/song.html

The Land of Ultimate Bliss is the Pure Land of Bliss.

Though the Pure Land is many thousands of millions of Buddhalands from here, it is at the same time very close to each one of us.

It begins by awakening to your own original true mind, realizing that, as Dharma Master Thich Thien Tam writes, "to recite is Buddha, to recite is Mind". -- http://www.geocities.com/amitabha48vows/bwf72.htm

How does one awaken to the true mind?

Through the method known as "Buddha Recitation-essence".

When devotees who practise with unwavering faith in the Pure Land of Bliss, also come to "deeply realize that the Pure Land and Amida Buddha are all in the True Mind, manifested by the pure virtues of the True Mind."