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  2. Equanimity
  3. Wrong Equanimity
  4. Mature Equanimity
  5. Equanimity with Wisdom
  6. Happily on the Path
     … He does talk about equanimity—that’s the closest he gets to talking about acceptance, accepting things as they are—but equanimity is never taught on its own, and the lists of qualities that lead up to equanimity always contain something having to do with joy, pleasure, happiness. In other words, when the Buddha talks about equanimity, it’s the equanimity of someone who … 
  7. Desire & Equanimity (low-fi)
  8. Goodwill & Equanimity, Inside & Out
  9. Equanimity of a Cow, The
  10. Equanimity as a Skill (outdoors)
  11. The Brahmaviharas Are Not Enough
     … That’s your ordinary garden-variety equanimity. But then there’s a deeper one that’s based on the formless realms, the formless jhanas. And even beyond that, there’s what the Buddha calls non-fashioning, where you don’t fashion as sense of yourself around the equanimity. Even in equanimity there can be attachment to the equanimity. If you don’t analyze it … 
  12. Skills for Awakening
     … If you’re being very honest with yourself, this is where, again, the qualities of calm and equanimity come together with persistence. You keep at this. But notice, the equanimity of a warrior is not the equanimity that says, “I’ll just put up with whatever. If I lose, that’s okay. If I win, that’s okay.” You have to want to win … 
  13. Limitless Compassion, Limited Resources
    When you develop the sublime attitudes—goodwill, compassion, empathetic joy—you can’t forget equanimity. As Ajaan Fuang once said, equanimity is there so that the others don’t turn into suffering. You try to develop goodwill for all beings but you see that there are a lot of people out there who are suffering. A lot of people are doing the things that … 
  14. Equanimity Isn’t Nibbana
     … This is why, from the outside, nibbana looks a lot like equanimity. There’s a great deal of misunderstanding around this point. It looks like equanimity, but it’s not. In fact, you have to go beyond all the various levels of equanimity—equanimity around the senses, the equanimity of all the highest levels of concentration—to a state of non-fashioning if you … 
  15. Unlimited Mind, Limited Resources
     … goodwill for everybody but also equanimity for everybody. The point is that you have to develop these attitudes whenever and wherever they’re appropriate. It requires some discernment to see when goodwill is appropriate, and when equanimity is called for. Now, these attitudes don’t come naturally. Some people say that goodwill and compassion are part of our innate nature, but you could also … 
  16. The Human Condition
     … There’s grief, there’s joy, and there’s equanimity. He divides each of these into two types: householder grief and renunciate grief; householder joy and renunciate joy; householder equanimity and renunciate equanimity. He uses these different emotions as a way of mapping out the path. Most of us live in householder grief, householder joy, and householder equanimity. Householder grief is the type that … 
  17. Feelings Not of the Flesh
     … Similarly with equanimity: Equanimity not of the flesh is the equanimity that comes with the fourth jhana and then develops up through the higher formless states. This, too, is something you’ve got to induce. You don’t just sit there and wait for it to hit you upside the head. You get the mind to settle in with the breath, and this breath … 
  18. The Reality Principle
     … This where the teaching on equanimity is important. It’s the brahmavihara that helps prevent the other brahmaviharas from causing us to suffer. We want all living beings to be happy. We see that some are suffering and we want to help them. Sometimes we can, but often we can’t. That’s where equanimity has to come in, to put your mind in … 
  19. Equanimity in Heart & Mind
     … The Buddha talks about bringing the mind to equanimity, and then going beyond ordinary, everyday equanimity, which is where you’re simply okay with whatever happens. You want to bring the mind to a more solid state of equanimity than that. He recommends two ways of doing that: One is through concentration, and the other is through insight. In both cases, though, you first … 
  20. Seclusion
     … Which is where equanimity comes in: a realization of what our limitations are and of the need to establish priorities. Ajaan Fuang once said that you need the equanimity of jhana so that the attitudes of goodwill, compassion, and appreciation don’t cause you suffering. You look around and you can see that there are lots of people you feel goodwill for but they … 
  21. The Story-telling Mind
     … You’ve got to think about that and learn how to develop equanimity in cases where equanimity is appropriate. The Buddha isn’t saying that equanimity is better than the other three attitudes. You just learn which situations require which attitude: which situations require goodwill, which require compassion, which require appreciation, which require equanimity. In this way, equanimity is not simply passive acceptance. It … 
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