Pure-Land Zen, Zen Pure-Land

“...If you suffer chronic illness, you should reflect deeply that this body is the very source of suffering, develop a revulsion toward it and strive to cultivate the Pure Land path, determined to achieve rebirth in the Land of Ultimate Bliss. The Buddhas view suffering as their teacher, thus achieving Ultimate tEnlightenment. Likewise, you should consider illness as medicine, to escape Birth and Death.You should realize that human beings are bound by all kinds of karmic afflic- tions. Without the sufferings of poverty and illness, they will, by nature, pursue the world of sight and sound, fame and profit, finding it difficult to let go. Who would then willingly turn around to watch and ponder the state of perdition to come?...”