Shinran · Theology

The Entrusting Heart

At the centre of Shinran's teaching is <em>shinjin</em> - the entrusting heart - which he insists is not our faith offered to the Buddha but the Buddha's own mind awakened in us: a gift, not an achievement, and the whole of what liberation requires.

What you'll be able to recall

You learned that Shinran made shinjin (the entrusting heart) the heart of the path, that he insisted this faith is not manufactured by our own effort but is Amida's mind awakened in us (Other Power extending even to faith itself), that receiving it settles one's liberation in the present rather than earning it in the…

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