正しょう念ねん

noun

right mindfulness

Buddhist term, one of the Eightfold Path factors. Refers to maintaining awareness of body, feelings, mind, and phenomena.

See also: 八正道

• 八はっ正しょう道どうの一ひとつに正しょう念ねんがある。

  Right mindfulness is one of the Eightfold Path factors.

noun

true faith (in rebirth in the Pure Land)

Pure Land Buddhist term. Refers to the sincere mind of faith in Amida Buddha's vow and rebirth in the Pure Land.

• 正しょう念ねんをもって念ねん仏ぶつすれば、必かならず浄じょう土どに生うまれると説とかれる。

  It is taught that if one recites the nembutsu with true faith, one will certainly be born in the Pure Land.