 Those who emphasized practice tended to assume that since the nembutsu was devised and provided out of Amida’s wisdom-compassion, those who entrust themselves to the Buddha’s vow will spontaneously, out of joy and gratitude, seek to live in mindfulness of Amida and to recite the name as often as possible throughout the remainder of their lives. This view, however, sometimes shaded into ethical and eschatological concerns. Some assumed that practitioners of the nembutsu should seek to live lives appropriate for birth into Amida’s buddha-field, lives of diligent recitation and moral rectitude; those who failed to display such dedication were viewed as negligent in their practice. Further, many adopted older views rooted in the Contemplation Sutra, in which nembutsu recitation was seen pragmatically, as a means of canceling the karmic effects of one’s past evil. This latter belief gave decisive weight to the nembutsu uttered at the moment of death, when the nullification of one’s final defilements of karmic evil made birth in the Pure Land possible.