The fundamental insight of Pure Land Buddhism is that it's our material and social conditions that hold people back from awakening. Thus Amida Buddha's method for fast-tracking universal liberation was to create a situation that lacks all poverty, injustice, and environmental pollution, thus allowing everyone to swiftly attain buddhahood. The implications of this for how we should organize our own social structures are obvious.

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