 Disciples found that the nembutsu of Amida’s vow as proclaimed by Hōnen in fact involves two elements, both of which are essential: on the one hand, the actual saying of Amida’s Name, “Namu-amida-butsu,” and on the other, the wholehearted entrusting of oneself to Amida’s vow, which, as we have seen, is precisely what qualitatively distinguishes vocal nembutsu from all other methods of practice and makes one’s performance of it the practice selected for beings and already fulfilled by Amida. For Hōnen, these two elements of practice and faith—utterance of the nembutsu and the entrusting of oneself to Amida’s vow—were mutually and unproblematically interfused, but many who sought to follow his teaching found that in actual engagement, the path appeared to be defined by emphasis on one element or the other. The question became for many followers: which is central in the life lived in genuine accord with Amida’s vow, practice or faith? In other words, concretely, how should persons of the nembutsu carry on their lives?