More specifically, the book argues that, although Zaiso (the state of agony) and Zenkyo (the state of religious exultation) appear in the sick person in turn in the stage of rinju, the person who attends the sick person must inquire about the states to him or her to record the answers and must chant nenbutsu (Buddhist invocation) together to help him or her to be able to die in the state of Zenkyo.
すなわち臨終の場面では、病人に罪相（苦しみの相）と前境（法悦の相）が交替して現われるが、看病人はそれを病人に問いただして記録し、病人が前境の状態のまま死を迎えることができるよう、ともに念仏を唱えて助けなければならないと論じている。