entrust　たのむ Used in two ways by Shinran, depending on the object. When the object is Amida Buddha or Primal Vow, the term is identical with shinjin, as an act of complete entrusting where all trace of ego-design has vanished. The other usage has self as the object, describing a self-dependency in which one relies solely on one’s own thoughts and accomplishments in walking the path of enlightenment. Entrusting one’s life to self-power describes “those who have full confidence in themselves, trusting their own hearts and minds, striving with their own powers, and relying on their own various roots of good (Notes on Once-calling and Many-calling).”