Is Buddhism Abnormal?
Normal: conforming to a standard; usual, typical, or expected.
Abnormal: deviating from what is normal, typical, or expected.
We have a choice “whether to suffer the slings and arrow of outrageous fortune or take arms against a sea of troubles and, by opposing, end them.” Bad things happen in life, and are the reason to walk away to contemplate, to understand.
Most of us are excited about taking sides, arguing this or that point and dividing ourselves from one another.
This is our normal.
This is our normal?
Buddhism takes a different view from rigid theism and atheism.
It is the middle way, neither something nor nothing.
Consciousness is not a thing that can be said to exist,
but nether can we deny that a knowingness is present.