The following is a poem by Wariko Kai:

There are rocks
And there are tree branches,
But the water flows on,
Gently gurgling…

The water in the stream does not find the rocks and tree branches in its path to be obstructions at all ? it just flows on. Similarly, those who live within Amida Buddha’s great salvation do not find anything to be obstructions. They just live their lives to the fullest.

Further, there is a traditional Jodo-Shinshu saying:

All right if I live, and all right if I die…

I believe this is a truly wonderful saying. It is evidence of living within the world of salvation. It is the single path that we follow in which nothing can obstruct us. That is the world of “All right if I live.” But everything that lives eventually dies, so when death appears immediately before our eyes, the joy of living in the great world of the mind at ease (salvation) also becomes the realm of “…and all right if I die.” I believe that is the realm of true calm and tranquility, the world of true joy.