{"id":6191,"date":"2010-05-17T16:12:09","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T08:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=6191"},"modified":"2010-05-17T16:12:09","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T08:12:09","slug":"whats-the-natural-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/05\/whats-the-natural-state\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the Natural State?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/137.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6192\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/137.jpg?resize=96%2C131\" alt=\"\" width=\"96\" height=\"131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/137.jpg?w=96&amp;ssl=1 96w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/137.jpg?resize=70%2C96&amp;ssl=1 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 96px) 100vw, 96px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Int he movie &#8216;Marie Antionette&#8217;, she quotes Rousseau in the open fields to her friends, after &#8216;breaking free&#8217; of the palace:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If we assume man has been corrupted by an artificial civilization,<br \/>\nwhat&#8217;s the natural state.<br \/>\nThe state of nature from which  he was removed?<br \/>\nImagine wandering up and down the forest without  industry,<br \/>\nwithout speech and without home.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These were words subtly lamenting of the contrived rites and rituals of royalty, which she found to be stifling and even suffocating. In Buddhism, <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">our truly natural state would be that after removing our absolutely needless defilements.<\/span> With our Buddha-nature in full bloom, we will be free to wander the universe uninhibited, with no fixed home, free, to illuminate the lives of others with enlightened speech and deeds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Int he movie &#8216;Marie Antionette&#8217;, she quotes Rousseau in the open fields to her friends, after &#8216;breaking free&#8217; of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[126],"class_list":["post-6191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-buddha-nature","wpcat-26-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}