Upstream to Enlightenment

As salmon swimming upstream, we go and go
Trying to push our spiritual lives forward.
Yet almost none of us have the power to jump
The biggest waterfall, to break through to our enlightenment.
So we dilly dally in this pool of human society,
Building things that cannot last
And circling round and round in relationships
From which we must part, one way or another.
Yet our faith in Amitabha gives us the finesse
To finally be freed.
For within his name, Amitabha gives us his strength
To help us make the great leap
And carry us up the final waterfall.
In a flash, with a splash,
It is into the vast lake of the Pure Land we go!