Based on Manshi Kiyozawa’s section I of his “The Great Path of Absolute Other Power,” Miki Nakura clarified that the Buddhist Pure Land as a “spiritual realm” is nothing but that mental and perhaps social state where one moves to do what “our hearts know is possible” (per Charles Eisenstein).
We may dislike suffering and this is normal. But it is also possible, and we know this deep within us, to accept it. Such acceptance is not mere surrender to defeat and to the cause of suffering but to Amida’s love and Other Power—the process that has led us to the present moment.
The thought is both radical, controversial, and even blasphemous not just in a religious sense but also in a political sense. I recognize its possibility, and this recognition must influence everything that is happening in my life.