One-pointedness of mind: singleminded focus, particularly on the name of Amitabha Buddha. According to Pure Land teaching, this is an essential condition for rebirth at a high lotus grade. See also the following passage:
The Method of Hearing is in keeping with the fundamental principle that if one sense-organ is intensely concentrated, all the other five sense-organs would be also held still automatically. This is the most fundamental tenet of the reciting method, as said in the Surangama Sutra: "When the six sense-organs [five senses plus mind] are simultaneously held in concentration, there will be very pure thought in succession." (Hsu Heng Chi, What's Buddhism, p. 56.)
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