normal state
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also completely normal experience · stop being something else · becoming yourself fully · prestať byť niečím iným · přestat být něčím jiným · stať sa plne sám sebou · stát se plně sám sebou · normální stav CZ
Summary
The Buddhist state is not a special state but our normal balanced state: not spiritual and not physical, just a nice normal state. In zazen we return to the natural state. We don’t need to try to be like that; we just need to stop being something else.
Part of ↑ zazen ↑ naturalness ↑ balance
Includes ↓ layers over underlying normality ↓ return to the natural state
Main theme
We don't need to try to be like that. We just need to stop being something else.
1The Eight Truths of a Great Person June 2006 — Padmafarma
You become yourself fully by practicing Zazen
2Zazen According to Sawaki Summer 2004 — Yoko Luetchford
it's just having a nice normal state. Not a spiritual state, but a balanced state
3Enlightenment as a Normal State July 2009 — Dibbavana
That experience is completely normal: it's not spiritual, and it's not physical. It's something completely normal.
4Zazen Is Not Meditation July 2021 — Skalní fara
the Buddhist state is not a special state, but our normal balanced state
Also in the narrower keywords
return to the natural state +4 texts
We sit and we wait to return to our natural state
Zen Without Spirituality September 2015 — Banský Studenec via layers over underlying normality
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
we try to return to our normal state, and we can say that our normal state is something similar to when we were children
Western Buddhism and Hierarchy February 2009 — Cholín
how can coming back to our natural state be unnatural?
Shoaku Makusa 5: The Child and the Old Man Winter 2006 — Shoaku Makusa