Pure Land

In the Zen understanding of Pure Land, Amitabha is identical with our innate enlightened mind, and the Pure Land is the purity of our inherent buddha-nature. The Zen adepts found that the Pure Land practice of reciting the buddha-name can be a powerful tool for focusing scattered minds and letting people reorient themselves toward a larger reality usually screened off by the preoccupations of their false selves.

---J. C. Cleary---