dark night and pure land practice

It seems that with surrrender being the key to progressing through the dukkha nanas and particularly through re-observation, a deeply understood "devotional" practice could be helpful here. I'm thinking of the experience that, for example, Amida Buddha is seeing our whole being, our suffering foolish being and our buddha nature, and doesn't see these as seperate or in conflict. Feeling seen in this way seems to allow a surrender to the facts of our ownmost negativities and desperate sufferings without succumbing to ego-defences like repression or worse yet super-ego attacks i.e "beating ourselves up".
Maybe?