The real Japanese answer to 'inner peace'.

What a Japanese person actually thinks
Reads as earned rather than aspirational. This is a word you hear from coaches and competitors, so it carries the implication that you've been tested.

Meaning

Literally: ordinary + everyday + mind
Actually: Keeping your everyday mind in an extraordinary moment. Composure under pressure — the thing athletes and martial artists actually train for.

Scores

Naturalness●●●●●

Common and well understood, especially in sport and budō.

Coolness●●●●●

Specific, useful, and almost never seen on foreigners. Says something true rather than something decorative.

Watch out

Nothing embarrassing lurking in here.

On skin

平常心

Orientation: vertical

Mincho, vertical. Three characters make an elegant column.