However, as indicated in a very forthright statement made by Shoma, a well known myokonin (a religious person): Some have happily picked up Namu-amida-butsu which I have happily spit from my mouth,' Genso-eko can be interpreted as hearing someone chanting the Name of the Buddha (Namu-amida-butsu), the sentient beings grasp that the existence that someone chanting the Name is the works of Amida Tathagata, and that the Name they themselves chant is the very form of returning from the Pure Land.
しかし、妙好人の庄松（しょうま）が、オラが喜んで捨てた「南無阿弥陀仏」を、拾うて喜ぶ者がおると端的に表現したように、還相回向を、念仏者の口から出てくる名号を聞いて、称名をする人間がいることを、阿弥陀如来のはたらきととらえ、自らが称えた名号を指して浄土から還ってきた相（すがた）と解する。