 Shōkū’s thinking about ethical life reflects the same elements seen in relation to benefits in this life: the person continues to act out of ignorance and self-attachment, but conduct manifesting oneness with Amida Buddha may also emerge spontaneously. He speaks, for example, of the elimination of the effects of past evil acts through repentance (zange metsuzai). He distinguishes, however, between two kinds or stages of repentance, that which is deliberately undertaken at particular times through ones own powers of self-reflection and contrition, but which is difficult to achieve (gyōmon no zange), and that which arises spontaneously and immediately as the working of the vow (kanmon no zange). As seen here, ethical behavior is not prescribed and undertaken as another form of praxis, but Other Power may function of itself in the life of the nembutsu practitioner to suppress evil and manifest compassion action.