Some synchronicity tonight: after writing this comment I finally remembered the URL of the Buddhist website where I first learned about Pure Land Buddhism. This would have been around 2010 and I wrote it off as "not real Buddhism" at the time, only to become very interested in Jodo Shu and Jodo Shinshu a few years ago, which sent me off in some very fruitful directions.
Better still, the Daily Meditation for today on the site is directly relevant to my comment above:
The Void is not of the nature of a black abyss or a bottomless pit. Rather is its nature 'vast and expansive like space itself'. It is apprehended as 'serene, marvellous, all-pure, brilliant and all-inclusive'. Above all does it partake of the nature of light. And it is not anything. For Void is Mind Itself, and Mind Itself is Void. - Ask the Awakened by Wei Wu Wei
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Better still, the Daily Meditation for today on the site is directly relevant to my comment above:
The Void is not of the nature of a black abyss or a bottomless pit.
Rather is its nature 'vast and expansive like space itself'.
It is apprehended as 'serene, marvellous, all-pure, brilliant and
all-inclusive'.
Above all does it partake of the nature of light.
And it is not anything.
For Void is Mind Itself, and Mind Itself is Void.
- Ask the Awakened by Wei Wu Wei