Being influenced by the teaching of Doshaku and Zendo, Honen distinguished the Right Practices, in which one recites Buddha's name in order to be born in the Pure Land, from Miscellaneous Practices, which include all the rest, and he encouraged the exercising of Right Practices.
法然においては、道綽と善導の考えを受けて、浄土に往生するための行を称名念仏を指す「正」とそれ以外の行の「雑」に分けて正行を行うように説いている。