What do u mean by recite Namo Amituofo often to overcome this
fault-finding habits?
That teaching is the Mahayana (east asian) buddhism teaching,
there are lots of different buddhist teaching due to humans
different thinking and also wanted to promote their sect and temple
business.
Namo amituofo is nothing but a gesture, a greeting of something
like buddha is with you.
If you will to open the sutras of buddhism and read it, be it
the diamond or lotus or 10 world sutras etc etc,...Buddha is in
you, what Gutama did (2500 years ago) was to preach to those
suffering lower caste indians so as to enable them to find comfort
in their soul while they are suffering form poor and hardship
life. He is somebody that wanted very much to study humans and
way of our life, he is a person, not god, nor saint, nor some holy
spirit. I respected him for his contribution to the human kinds,
everyone of us is a buddha, it just that we did not show it often,
by helping a old man crossing the road or giving a seat to cripple
one, you are the buddha of the moment. If i will ask you how you
feel after you helped someone, that feeling is buddha, for no
amount of money can buy that feeling, and to
him that feeling within you at that moment is called
heaven.
Thus come the compassionate one
Angel
Er Mei nunnery
Er Mei Shan
Taichong