Three Thousand Realms in a Single Thought Moment

一念三千,是指日常生活中的起心動念,妄念紛飛如三千大千世界般,無邊無際。

生活在凡塵俗世之中,總是逃脫不了世俗的牽絆,我們的起心動念,每天都在上天入地,順心如意便是天堂,惡念紛飛宛如地獄。

盡管外在環境充斥虛與委蛇、爭權奪名之處,但只要心中澄明,則處處淨土,想要自在生活,還是擾攘終日,天堂與地獄,在你的一念之間。

As a band, and as individuals, we’re always trying to evolve, always educating ourselves, and forever looking to combine new theatrical elements into our performance to exemplify our personal evolution on stage. We hope that by doing so, our audience will evolve and educate themselves along with us.

“Three thousand realms in a single thought moment” refers to those multitudes of thoughts that arise in daily life. There are ten worlds in each moment, and each of those worlds is possessed of those same ten worlds again. In turn, each of those worlds possesses thirty realms. So, in any single moment of life, there are three thousand realms.

Delusions and distractions fly around us like these three thousand boundless worlds. As such, it can be difficult to escape the shackles of the mundane. Our thoughts flit between heaven and earth from day to day, back and forth, and back again. Though the external environment is often filled by the emptiness of the earthly concepts of contempt, power, and fame, as long as your heart and mind are clear, no matter where you go, you will roam in what we call the Western Pure Lands. This is the idea behind our performance—a mix of heaven and hell, the earthly and the otherworldly—a moment of clarity amidst the three thousand realms.