The Buddha told Ananda, In the Land of Utmost Bliss, there are no seas, but there are rivers

A description of Dewachen

Taken form the Amitabha sutra

The Buddha described Dewachen to Ananda, In the Land of Utmost Bliss, there are no seas, but there are rivers. The narrowest river is ten leagues wide and the shallowest water twelve leagues deep. Some rivers are twenty, thirty, and so on, even a hundred leagues in depth or width. The deepest and widest ones measure up to one thousand leagues. The water is clear and cool and has the eight meritorious qualities. The deep currents flow rapidly, giving forth a wonderful sound, which is like the sound of hundreds of thousands of musical instruments played by gods; it is heard all over the Land of Utmost Bliss. Beautiful flowers float downstream on the water. A gentle breeze wafts fragrance of all kinds. On the two banks of the rivers, there are many sandalwood trees with long branches and dense foliage interlaced into canopies over the rivers. They produce beautiful, fragrant flowers and bear lovely, shiny fruit. People come here to roam about and enjoy themselves as they like. Some wade through the water, washing their feet in the streams and making merry. The celestial water is agreeable to all and alters its depth and temperature at any time to suit the people in it.Ananda, the bottom of the great rivers is covered with gold sand. The rivers give forth a celestial fragrance spread by the wind, with which nothing worldly can compare. The sweet smelling water flows along, strewed with celestial flowers of the coral tree, blue lotus flowers, red lotus flowers, white lotus flowers and giant white lotus flowers. Furthermore, Ananda, when people in that Buddha-land go together on an excursion to the riverside, those who do not wish to hear the sound of the rapids will not hear it at all, even if they have acquired the deva-ear. Those who wish to hear it will immediately hear hundreds of thousands of pleasant sounds, such as the sounds of the Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha; the sounds of cessation; the sounds of no essence; the sounds of the paramitas; the sounds of the ten powers and the four fearlessnesses; the sounds of miraculous powers; the sounds of non action; the sounds of non-arising and non-cessation; the sounds of quiescence; universal quiescence; and utter quiescence; the sounds of great kindness and great compassion; the sound of the Realisation of Non-arising of Dharmas; and the sounds of anointment and enthronement. After hearing these various sounds, the listeners will be overwhelmed by feelings of great joy and delight, and become responsive to [the teachings on] contemplation, renunciation, destruction [of defilements], quiescence, universal quiescence, utter quiescence, the taste of the doctrine, the Buddha, the Dharma, the Sangha, the ten powers, the four fearlessnesses, the miraculous powers, cessation, enlightenment, Sravakahood, and nirvana.Furthermore, Ananda, in the Land of Utmost Bliss, the names of the miserable planes of existence are not heard. There are no such terms as hindrance, or enshrouding defilements; nor such terms as Yama, or animal. There are no such terms as the eight adversaries, nor terms for painful or neutral feelings. There is not even the concept of suffering, let alone real suffering. This is why that Buddha-land is called Utmost Bliss. Ananda, now I can speak only briefly of this blissful land. If I spoke of it in detail, I would not be able to finish even if I spent and entire kalpa.

Moreover, Ananda, all the sentient beings of the Land of Utmost Bliss, whether they have been, are being, or will be born there, have exquisite bodily forms and handsome features. They have free command of miraculous powers and a full complement of merits. They enjoy all kinds of palaces, gardens, groves, garments, food and drink, incense, flowers, and necklaces. Whatever they want appears to them spontaneously, as it is with the gods of the Paranirmita-Vasavartin Heaven.

Furthermore, Ananda, in that Buddha-land there is a kind of subtle food which sentient beings eat without using their mouths; they feel they are eating the food as soon as they think about it, as it is with the gods in the Sixth Heaven. The food nourishes the body but produces no excrement.Moreover, there are unlimited quantities of the most agreeable incense, perfumed ointment, and powdered incense, the fragrance of which permeates all that Buddha-land. Also found everywhere are banners and scattered flowers. Those who do not wish to will smell nothing.

If sentient beings want palaces, storied buildings, or pavilions whether high or low, long or short, wide or narrow, square or round with various gems, these things will appear before them spontaneously according to their respective wishes, so that everyone will think he is living in a palace of his own.

Ananda, every morning , a gentle breeze blows all over the blissful land, which causes no reverse or disturbing winds and carries the fragrance of various flowers to every corner of that Buddha-land. All sentient beings, when touched by the breeze, feel as peaceful and comfortable as a monk who has achieved the Dhayana of Complete Cessation of Feeling and Conception. When trees made of the seven treasures are blown by the breeze, their blossoms fall and form piles as tall as seven persons, and the entire Buddha-land is illuminated by their multicoloured lights. The flowers are evenly mixed and spread out according to their different colours, as if someone had spread them over the ground and levelled them with his hands. They are exquisite flowers, large, and as soft as cotton. When the sentient beings tread on the piles, their feet sink as much as four fingers deep, but when they lift their feet, the ground returns to its original condition. When the morning is over, the flowers spontaneously sink into the ground. As the old flowers disappear, the great earth becomes refreshingly clean, and then a rain of new flowers entirely covers the ground again. The same thing happens [six times a day]: in the early, middle, and last part of the day, and in the early, middle and last part of the night.Ananda, all the rarest treasures are found in the Land of Utmost Bliss. Ananda, in that Buddha-land, there are lotus flowers made of the seven treasures and each of the lotus flowers has countless hundreds of thousands of [millions of] billions of petals in numerous hundreds of thousands of rare colours. Each lotus is adorned with hundreds of thousands of wonderful wish-fulfilling pearls and covered with precious nets, all of them mutually reflecting. Ananda, a lotus flower there has a diameter of half a league, or one, two, three, four, even one hundred or one thousand leagues, and each emits three billion six hundred million myriads of lights. In each light appear three billion six hundred million myriads of Buddhas. These Buddhas are golden in complexion and superbly adorned with the thirty-two auspicious signs and the eighty minor ones. They emit hundreds of thousands of lights to illuminate every corner of the world. They go to the east to preach the Dharma to the people and establish countless sentient beings in the Buddha-Dharma. For the same purpose, they also go to the south, the west, the north, the four intermediate directions, the zenith and the nadir.