naturalness
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Summary
Naturalness is our natural, normal state: not a special or spiritual state but a simple, balanced one, which we may see in babies and animals. In zazen we can return to it. Natural action comes without intention; we need not try to become something, only stop being something else.
Part of ↑ body and mind ↑ buddha and awakening
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when we practise zazen, we can return to our natural state: not a special state, a simple state
Three Teachings from Japan September 2013 — Banský Studenec
The most important text
- Prajñā: The State Before Thinking ●●● May 2014 — Banský Studenecnaturalness of babies and animals · prajñā as the natural state · prajñā has no I · state before our parents were born · state without principles
the natural state of living beings when they don't separate their mental area from the physical area
Other texts
- Shoaku Makusa 5: The Child and the Old Man ●●● Winter 2006 — Shoaku Makusachild as buddha · cleaning plaque, natural or not · natural as normative or usual · return to the natural state
Master Dogen is saying that a child is a buddha
- Shoaku Makusa 2: Not Doing Wrong as a State ●●● Winter 2006 — Shoaku Makusachildren supported but not disturbed · giving up trying to be better · pine tree and chrysanthemums
not to get better, but to give up getting better. And to give up getting better is much better!
- Recognising the Marrow in Ourselves ●●● May 2012 — Nová Dedinkadog always in the moment · giving up trying to be better · presence of a baby
not trying to change changes us. I don't know why. Maybe human beings are very stubborn.
- Zen Without Spirituality ●●● September 2015 — Banský Studeneclayers over underlying normality · return to the natural state
We sit and we wait to return to our natural state
- Three Teachings from Japan ●●● September 2013 — Banský Studenecreturn to the natural state · presence of a baby
when we practise zazen, we can return to our natural state: not a special state, a simple state
- Introductions 4: Ordinary Balance ●●● Summer 2003 — Introductions to Shobogenzo Chapterseuphoric state and the Buddhist state
it’s not the Buddhist state; it’s a kind of euphoric state, not a normal state
- Zazen According to Sawaki ●●● Summer 2004 — Yoko Luetchfordnormal state
You become yourself fully by practicing Zazen
- Uji 4: Contradictory Explanations ●●● Winter 2004 — Ujinatural action without intention
there’s some kind of natural process, not the result of some kind of intention
- The Eight Truths of a Great Person ●●● June 2006 — Padmafarmanormal state
We don't need to try to be like that. We just need to stop being something else.
- Ikka-no-myoju 4: The Universe as Teacher ●●● Summer 2006 — Ikka-no-myojuthe universe teaching us
We're in the universe, and the universe and all the things in it teach us
- Kuge 1: Ripening Fruit ●●● Winter 2007 — Kugefruit ripens by itself
Something ripening by itself is producing a cause and being affected by the effect
- Enlightenment as a Normal State ●●● July 2009 — Dibbavananormal state
it's just having a nice normal state. Not a spiritual state, but a balanced state
- Sadness Is a Change in Balance ●●● August 2011 — Dibbavanagiving up trying to be better
because we give up everything, including trying to improve ourselves, this improves us
- Kodo Sawaki and Concrete Teaching ●●● August 2011 — Dibbavanachildren's natural state of mind · playing the violin while nowhere
Just a kind of natural, peaceful state of mind that slowly disappears while growing up.
- Intuition Covered by Thinking ●●● August 2012 — Dibbavanaprajñā as the natural state
the state which is different from thinking is our basic state. Everybody has it.
- Zazen Is Not Meditation ●●● July 2021 — Skalní faranormal state
That experience is completely normal: it's not spiritual, and it's not physical. It's something completely normal.
- Action as the Center of Buddhism ●●●normal state
the Buddhist state is not a special state, but our normal balanced state
- Shoaku Makusa 4: Doing Right Without a Doer ●●● Winter 2006 — Shoaku Makusagiving up trying to be better
We call it wanting to become better. And a desire to become better is very, very deeply ingrained in our psyches
- Western Buddhism and Hierarchy ●●● February 2009 — Cholínreturn to the natural state
we try to return to our normal state, and we can say that our normal state is something similar to when we were children
- Morality as Balanced Action ●●● February 2009 — Cholíngiving up trying to be better
If we give up trying to make ourselves better, magically, we become a little better
- Buddha-nature ●●● Shobogenzo · Busshocow coming up and mooing
When he expressed his view, his state was natural and unintentional; just like a cow coming up to you and mooing!
- Why We Practice Zazen ●●● August 1987 — Gudo Wafu Nishijimanaturally religious children
children are naturally religious. In other words, children are natural; therefore, they can believe in something sacred in the universe
- Uji 1: Time Is the Present ●●● Winter 2004 — Ujicat taught to be human
you’ve been teaching it to be human. Animals can learn to be worried and to have intention like us.
- Zazen from Four Viewpoints ●●● June 2005 — Lotus Centrebabies as Buddhas and devils
So little babies, we can say, are Buddhas. Of course, it's not true. They're devils.
- Bussho 2: This World, Not Heaven ●●● Summer 2005 — Busshocow coming up and mooing
his state was natural and unintentional; just like a cow coming up to you and mooing
- Uji 4: Coming into the Present ●●● Summer 2007 — Ujithe universe teaching us
some people like to keep a pet because the pet is always showing them how to be in the present moment
- MMK 3: Cutting Through Categories ●●● Summer 2008 — Nagarjuna’s Mulamadhyamakakarikasport and the natural state
sport has done far more for modern societies than many religions have because it has allowed people to find their natural state
- Dojo and Home, Sacred and Ordinary ●●● September 2015 — Banský Studenecbecoming like a little child
unless you become like a little child, you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven
- The Meaning of the Precepts ●●●calm as our natural state
in fact anger is not our natural state – it is not our natural condition. In Buddhism we seek to maintain our composure.
- What did the Buddha discover? ●●●original state of human nature
he had returned to his natural state as a human being
- Gaku do yo jin shu - Practical Advice on Pursuing the Buddhist Truth ●●●animals caring for their young
Haven’t you ever seen how insects and animals struggle and suffer to bring up their offspring
Keywords
Ideas (11) giving up trying to be better5 normal state5 return to the natural state4 prajñā as the natural state2 calm as our natural state child as buddha euphoric state and the Buddhist state natural action without intention natural as normative or usual original state of human nature prajñā has no I
Themes (5) the universe teaching us2 children supported but not disturbed children's natural state of mind sport and the natural state state without principles
Images and stories (15) cow coming up and mooing2 presence of a baby2 animals caring for their young babies as Buddhas and devils becoming like a little child cat taught to be human cleaning plaque, natural or not dog always in the moment fruit ripens by itself layers over underlying normality naturally religious children naturalness of babies and animals pine tree and chrysanthemums playing the violin while nowhere state before our parents were born