Thanksgiving

Right now, I am thankful to Amida that my sincere faith in His Primal Vow leads to rebirth as a bodhisattva in the Pure Land.

Then will that bodhisattva will be return to this Saha world as a new sentient being.

Likewise, here and now, when my heart-mind becomes at one with the Pure Mind during Nembutsu meditation, I might briefly glimpse such a rebirth in the Pure Land.

And when my mind returns to the Saha world, the essence of that bodhisattva remains.

Thus it is possible to be thankful to Amida *and* aspire to become a bodhisattva.