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    It is not the case that For Pure Land teaching to be authentically grasped, a shift or transformation of awareness must emerge in beings

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    • 1.Shinran's own doctrine of tariki (other-power) explicitly rejects self-cultivated transformation as a precondition for salvific understanding.
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    • 2.If Amida's vow operates unconditionally regardless of the practitioner's mental state, requiring an antecedent shift contradicts the soteriological structure of Pure Land itself.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Wittgenstein's rule-following considerations establish that authentic grasp of a teaching is demonstrated through correct application, not through privileged inner states.
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    • 2.A criterion of authentic understanding that appeals to ineffable shifts of awareness is epistemically inaccessible and cannot serve as a meaningful standard of doctrinal comprehension.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Human understanding is constantly subject to the distortions of self-attachment
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    • 2.Authentic grasp of the teaching requires overcoming the distortions of ordinary awareness
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