3000 realms in single moment - Ichinen Sanzen

There is an artificial notion called time, they are separated into three parts, past, present and future.  Society was designed according to plan, they claim their past by words, music, arts and so forth.

To be happy and to make people feel happy, is the easiest job we can do anywhere, people are more or less very similar and it is very easy to fundamentally connect, if unnecessary barriers are not in presence.

In Nichiren Buddhism, there is a notion called Ichinen Sanzen(一念三千: three thousand realms in single moment), which means that there are three thousands of different aspects involved in single fraction of moment, which we can barely recognize intellectually.  Many religious practices such prayer, chanting, singing, meditating and others share the purpose, to focus on our mind, our body and its environment.  Environment including everything and everyone around us.  We need peaceful moment to do them because we are too complex to be roughly treated.  Our body, mind and the environment are connected, and we will know when they are not supporting and complimenting each other.  To me, religious practices are maintenance, if our mind needs a bit of adjustment to the environment or our body, we need to know which exact part of us is so.  If some part of our body is not going along well with other aspects, we all know because of physical signals.  Environment is too broad expression, but if we carefully pay attention to the surroundings, we can feel and predict very acurate movement of nature.  It probably can be called science.

As we practice more, we accumulate more knowledge and experience, be more mindful, then we can do more jobs with less concentration, less time and less fatigue.  This is always hidden part of personality, but basics of everything.  Money game is mind game, science is about careful observation and patient study, the results of trials and errors need to be organized by mindful self, sports are ultimately mind game as well, so on and on.  Without training and keep realizing newly born self, neither our mind nor our body will not grow in genuine sense.

People called they are gifted, they do not stop discovering their new desires, feelings, ineffable inner realizations, the progress can be slow and sometimes very fast and violent as nature.

Self exists only for self, nothing more is there, so we grow and expand self, then it sometimes overlap with other's self, it might be collision, it might be harmony.  When self is universally shared by many people, it becomes a huge project, business, community and so on.  Therefore, legendary people, or the best people in the world, never stop expanding their self and most of them are no longer just self but non-dual being.

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