Shinran’s Preface to the Hymn of True Shinjin and the Nembutsu (The Shoshinge)
From the Chapter on Practice in Shinran’s masterwork: The True Teaching, Practice, and Realization of the Pure Land Way, as published in The Collected Works of Shinran, Volume I, “The Writings”, Jodo Shinshu Hongwanji-ha, Kyoto, Japan (Shin Buddhism Translation Series, 1997).