' The Buddha-name as a Mantra '...

"Reciting the buddha-name is equivalent to upholding a mantra.

After you have gained power by reciting the buddha-name, you will face objects with equanimity.

the first gate to liberation is feeling weary and becoming detached from it.

But how can you get independent of it?

If you keep on reciting the buddha-name for a long time,

the time when you accord will naturally arrive."



-Master Chu-hung
in J. C. Cleary, Tr.
Pure Land, Pure Mind The Buddhism of Masters Chu-hung and Tsung-pen
NY, San Francisco & Toronto: Sutra Translation
Committee of U.S. and Canada, 1994, p. 59