Instructions on virtue for returning to this world teaches that after being born in the pure land and completing the requirements for samatha and vipasyana, attaining the power of compassion, one can return and enter the deep forests of birth-and-death, teach and guide sentient beings, and bring together all who enter the Buddha-wayr.
還相とは、かの土に生じをはりて、奢摩他・毘婆舎那・方便力成就することを得て、生死の稠林に回入して、一切衆生を教化して、ともに仏道に向かへしむるなり。