The path of absolute Other Power

For my own devotional reading I often read two testimonies of Kiyozawa Manshi, a Pure Land Buddhist who suffered much in his life, but found Trust.

From the opening of his "The Path of Absolute Other Power":-

[i]This my self is none other than that which, following the way of suchness and entrusting itself to the wondrous working that is absolute and infinite, has settled down of itself in the present situation.[/i]

Nothing more is needed.

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Tariki

Kiyozawa Manshi also says in "My Faith":-

[i]What good is, what evil is, what truth is, what untruth is, what happiness is, what unhappiness is—none of these are finally within our grasp.[/i]

This, at heart, is the reason a Pure Lander will know themselves as a [i]bombu[/i], a "foolish being". Nothing to do with intellect - a rocket scientist, an Einstein, can know themselves as a bombu.

Therefore, trust/faith. Letting go.

Rather than filling ourselves with creeds and formulas, self-justifications and self-commendations, all the time insisting they are "God given".