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"Pure Land, like all Mahayana schools requires first and foremost the development of the Bodhi Mind, the aspiration to attain Buddhahood for the benefitof all sentient beings."
Shinran (1173-1262) made clear in Kyogyoshinsho that the motive for seeking to be reborn in the Pure Land is bodhicitta, the desire to help sentient beings (and not pleasure or one's own happiness).
Basically, there we have in Pure Land Buddhism the answer to the question of what each of us should be working towards for our After-Death.
In the tradition of Christianity, what one has to do to achieve this very aim was stated at Fatima in 1917. It was nothing new, having been known at least seven centuries before then. A strange thing for the "first and foremost" requirement of the Seeker is that discussion of the matter cannot be found in these forums since what has to be done is rather onerous.
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