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- Right Resolve & Right Concentration… And then the pleasure of equanimity. The mind needs something to feed on, and these stages of concentration are your food. Good food. Then, once you have better food to feed on, it’s a lot easier not to go back to the old stuff. In the beginning it may be hard. You find yourself sneaking back for your cheeseburgers or whatever. And this …
- Cooking the Present Moment… having goodwill for all, compassion, empathetic joy, and equanimity for all. If you find that you’re suffering a lot from something that’s happening in your life, ask yourself: Are you lacking in these qualities? Which one are you lacking in? Where is the mind narrowing down? Are you jealous of other people’s good fortune? Do you have ill will for people …
- Attahi Attano Natho… kindness, goodwill, patience, equanimity. So it’s not the case that we don’t think about other people at all. In fact, we think about how not to be harmful to them, and how we can benefit by helping them. In that way, the real skill develops, which is how to find happiness in a way that harms no one, and how you can …
- The Management of Suffering… Develop patience, equanimity, goodwill, kindness, and learn to be wise. That teaching on the discernment of arising and passing away applies very much to the happiness we have in this round of rebirth. When people die, you have to remind yourself: When does it ever happen that people who are born don’t die? Their arising holds the seeds for their passing away. You …
- Make the Most of Right Now… Learn some equanimity. That is not the escape from suffering. That’s not the escape from unsatisfactoriness. The escape is realizing that you’re implicit in making these things happen. When the Buddha says that the objects of the senses and the senses themselves are fabricated, it’s not simply that they depend on conditions, but that you play a role in getting engaged …
- Values of the Noble Ones… generosity, virtue, renunciation, discernment, persistence, endurance, truth, determination, goodwill, equanimity. Those are all good things to develop. You simply have to figure out which ones are appropriate right here and now. If the list of ten is too long, just think, “How about goodwill?” Goodwill is not just a pink-cotton-candy attitude you spread out with cloud machines. It’s basically thinking, “What …
- Meaning & Becoming… It includes generosity, virtue, renunciation, discernment, persistence, endurance, truth, determination, goodwill, equanimity. When you develop these qualities, they take you out. So, if you’re looking for meaning and significance., it doesn’t have anything to do with the relationships you develop, although if you want to find what the Buddha calls an admirable friend, someone to helps you develop these qualities, that’s …
- The Focus on Suffering… serenity, concentration, equanimity. Learn how to dampen the fire a little bit so as it’s just right for what you need. On the other hand, if the fire looks like it’s dying out, you need to add more of the active qualities. As for learning what kind of fire’s just right: You can listen to other people explain the idea, but …
- Patience… If nothing in the body right now feels good, talk to yourself in a way that reminds you that you’re developing the perfection of patience, you’re developing the perfection of equanimity, the perfection of determination. These are qualities we’re going to need in life anyhow, so here’s a good chance to develop them. It’s one of the reasons why …
- Perceptions Around Pain… You can make up your mind that you’ll be equanimous in the face of the pain, that you won’t react. The effort put into being non-reactive* is* a type of proactivity, but there’s a lot more that needs to be done to understand the pain. You want to investigate the perceptions you have that contribute to the pain, that create …
- Goodwill in Action… You can hope to be a good influence on them, but you have to remember that everybody has his or her own freedom of choice, which is why metta has to be balanced with upekkha, equanimity: realizing that you can have only so much influence on other people, but you want whatever the influence you have on others to be as beneficial as possible …
- Rehab Work… I’m just very equanimous about what happens in the present moment as I breathe in, as I breathe out.” The Buddha responded, “Well, there is that kind of breath meditation, but that’s not the kind that gives the best results.” Then, he taught the monks the sixteen steps of breath meditation. If you look at those sixteen steps, you notice a lot …
- A Home for the Mind… The reflection on equanimity reminds us that there are a lot of things in life we can’t change. If you spend your time worrying about things you can’t change, getting worked up over things you can’t change, you’re wasting the energy you could use to focus on the things you can change. All these chants remind us of the values …
- The Path Is and Isn’t the Goal… There are feelings of pleasure that you’re inducing, feelings of ease, feelings of equanimity. There’s the perception you hold of the breath, the mental activity of adjusting and investigating, probing, learning about the breath, learning about the mind. And there’s consciousness. In other words, you’ve got the five aggregates right here in your state of right concentration. So there’s …
- Anger… You’re showing forbearance, you’re showing equanimity, you’re showing patience, all of which are strengths. It’s when you have these virtues that you can see clearly what does and doesn’t need to be said or done. The more clarity you can bring to situations like that, the better it is for everyone around.
- Calming the Breath… So the Buddha asks him, “What kind of breath meditation do you do?” And the monk says, “I put away thoughts of past, put away thoughts of future, and let my mind be equanimous toward whatever is arising in the present, as I breathe in and breathe out.” The Buddha’s response is, “Well, there is that kind of breath meditation.” But he adds …
- Standing Where the Buddha Stood… You take the same equanimity, the same mindfulness you developed in the fourth jhana and simply change the perception. So when you want to understand feeling or perception, this is the place to do it. Get the mind really well centered, and then you can watch these things as they affect the mind. You can see where they come from, where they go. You …
- Control… That’s where you have to develop equanimity. In other words, let go of the things you can’t control so that you can focus your energy on the things you can. This is how the not-self teaching gets applied through the practice even when you’re not ready for the ultimate level where you totally abandon any thought of self. You learn …
- Noble Standards… It requires that you be generous, that you be virtuous, that you develop thoughts of goodwill and compassion, empathetic joy, equanimity, where they’re appropriate. And that spreads the goodness around.
- In & of Themselves… When you find a way that you can get the mind and the breath together with a feeling of well-being, a feeling of pleasure, or a feeling of equanimity, then you can put some of the thinking aside, and just be with the sensation of the body in and of itself. You’re getting closer and closer to the “in and of itself …
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