equal to Tathagatas　如来とひとし Even though one is a being of karmic evil, when one entrusts oneself completely to the Primal Vow, devoid of any form of self-willed calculation, one’s heart and mind is equal to that of Tathagatas. This is possible because this entrusting (shinjin) is none other than the heart and mind of Amida Buddha working in a person. To express this, Shinran speaks of the heart and mind of persons of shinjin always being in the Pure Land, even though their body remains in this relative world of defilement. This should not be understood as implying any duality of body and mind, or that the mind, separating itself from the body, goes to a remote Pure Land.