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- Change… That’s equanimity. Mindfulness is when you keep in mind the fact that there are skillful qualities and unskillful qualities. And that if something unskillful comes up, you’ve got to get rid of it. If something skillful arises, you’ve got to encourage it. And if it hasn’t arisen, you’ve got to give rise to it. And you remember how to …
- The Buddha Didn’t Play Gotcha… But right concentration, being focused in this present moment with full body awareness, a sense of ease and rapture that then shades into equanimity: That’s a valuable skill. There are greater dangers in the path, such as the danger of getting teachers who say, “Well, you can’t gain concentration or you shouldn’t try.” That’s pretty dangerous. Or other teachers who …
- A Refuge from Karma… goodwill for everybody, compassion for everybody, empathetic joy for everybody, equanimity for everybody when it’s needed. That enlarges your mind, and the enlarged mind suffers a lot less than the narrow, constricted mind that’s constantly worried about this, worried about that, overcome by pain. You train the mind in virtue, you train it in discernment, so that it doesn’t have to …
- Noble Right Concentration… You settle down with a sense of equanimity. That’s the standard definition or description of the four levels of jhana. But when the Buddha talks about noble right concentration, he adds another factor. He calls it having your theme well in hand. He illustrates it with an analogy: a person sitting and watching someone else lying down, or a person standing and watching …
- Generosity of Spirit… It’s hard for them to take what other people have done to them with a measure of equanimity, with a measure of what I call generosity of spirit. After all, we’re living in a world where everybody is imperfect. We’d like to have perfection all around us, but you have to look inside. Are you perfect? Well, no. You’ve got …
- The Strength of Heedfulness… So you let that go and you tune the mind in to a subtler level of energy, until you realize that equanimity can really be pleasurable. It’s a higher form of pleasure, a subtler, more refined form of pleasure. Then finally, the fact that you’ve been learning how to put this mental state together makes you more aware of the processes of …
- Life in the Buddha’s Hospital… That’s when you should reflect on the principle of kamma to develop equanimity. There are antidotes for all these diseases, and our duty here is to use them. Because, after all, who’s suffering because of our diseases? Other people may be suffering to some extent, but we’re really suffering. We suffer very little from what other people do, and a great …
- Contemplating the World You Create… goodwill for everybody, compassion for everybody, empathetic joy for everybody, equanimity for the entire universe. You can think about the things out there in the world that you’ve laid claim to and tell yourself, “That’s really not mine. Even my body isn’t really mine.” You’ve borrowed it for a bit. As you eat, you’re taking in elements from the …
- The Conditions for Goodwill… That’s when you’ve got to develop equanimity. So these are things you have to work on. It helps when you’re working on goodwill to have a sense of well-being inside already. Ajaan Lee’s image is of a water tank. If there’s no water in the tank, you can open up the faucet and nothing but air will come …
- 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 …
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