 It is in such self-awareness that we see the force behind Hōnen’s radical reorientation of the understanding of praxis. Hōnen saw clearly that unless a wholly new perspective were established regarding the categorization and evaluation of the myriad practices taught in Buddhist tradition, the genuine meaning of the Pure Land path as he had come to understand it would remain obscure, and vocal nembutsu would continue to be viewed by all people as merely an expedient practice for inferior practitioners. He therefore raised the issue of the subjectivity of the practitioner, and insisted that commonsense hierarchies rooted in presuppositions of one’s own fundamental perspicuity and autonomous capacity to judge had to be abandoned. To accomplish this shift, Hōnen relied on the thoroughgoing application of his innovative concept of “selection from among alternatives” (senchaku), which refers most centrally to Amida’s own selection, for beings, of vocal nembutsu as the single, universally accessible practice that results in birth into the Pure Land. Beings’ taking up of the Pure Land path is thus founded upon Amida’s selection and fulfillment of the nembutsu for all beings equally. We see, therefore, that the dual awareness of “deep mind” is at the core of Hōnen’s path.