Editing Ten realms (section)

== Three thousand realms in a single moment ==

Each of the ten realms or worlds are contained within each realm, the "mutual possession of the ten realms" (Jap. ''jikkai gogu'').  The one subsequent hundred worlds are viewed through the lenses of the [[Ten suchnesses]] and the three realms of existence (Jpn. ''san-seken'') to formulate three thousand realms of existence.<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Soka Gakkai dictionary of buddhism|date=2002|publisher=Soka Gakkai |isbn=9784412012059|location=Tokyo|oclc=5196165|url=http://www.nichirenlibrary.org/en/dic/Content/T/165}}</ref> These hundred aspects of existence leads to the concept of "''three thousand realms in a single moment'' (Jap. ''Ichinen Sanzen'')."<ref>{{cite news|last1=Caine-Barrett|first1=Myokei|title=Teachings for Uncertain Times: Viewing 3,000 Realms in a Single Moment|url=https://tricycle.org/trikedaily/myokei/|publisher=Tricycle|date=Feb 8, 2017}}</ref>

According to this conception, the world of Buddha and the nine realms of humanity are interpenetrable,<ref>{{cite book|last1=Shimazono|first1=Susumu|editor1-last=Takeuchi|editor1-first=Yoshinori|title=Buddhist spirituality: later China, Korea, Japan, and the modern world|date=2003|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass|location=Delhi|isbn=9788120819443|page=445|chapter=29: Soka Gakkai and the Modern Reformation of Buddhism|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dXMBhF_lhk8C&q=9788120819443&pg=PA435}}</ref> there is no original "pure mind," and good and evil are mutually possessed.<ref name="Stone 2003">{{cite book|author1-link=Jacqueline Stone|last1=Stone|first1=Jacqueline I.|title=Original enlightenment and the transformation of medieval Japanese Buddhism|date=2003|publisher=University of Hawai'i Press|location=Honolulu|isbn=9780824827717|page=179|edition=Pbk.|quote=The mutual encompassing or copenetration of the ten realms (jikkai gogu) collapses any ontological distinction between the Buddha and the beings, implying that the nine realms of unenlightened beings possess the Buddha nature inherently, while the Buddha possesses the nine realms of unenlightened beings. The mutual inclusion of the ten realms represents an important characteristic of Chih-i's thought there is no original "pure mind"; good and evil are always nondual and mutually possessed. The most depraved icchantika is endowed the Buddha realm, while the Buddha is still latently endowed with the realms of unenlightened beings.}}</ref>  This establishes a proclivity to immanence rather than transcendency.  According to [[Nichiren]] the three thousand realms in a single moment is practical and realizable in this lifetime in the concrete world.<ref>{{cite book|last1=See|first1=Tony|editor1-last=Bogue|editor1-first=Ronald|editor2-last=Chiu|editor2-first=Hanping|editor3-last=Lee|editor3-first=Yu-lin|title=Deleuze and Asia|date=2014|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing|isbn=9781443868884|pages=38–39|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0TFQBwAAQBAJ|chapter=2: Deleuze and Mahayana Buddhism: Immanence and Original Enlightenment Thought}}</ref>