At first, he defined nenbutsu as 'a way for making people right although the way itself was not right,' that is, since people could never understand Amida-butsu (Amitabha)'s original vow to save people, people could never understand the right way for making them right.
まず、阿弥陀仏の本願は人間では思い至る事が出来ない物であるため、「無義をもて義とす」るものであると、念仏を定義する。