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  2. The Treasure of Equanimity
     … Traditionally, this chant is one way of developing equanimity, although it’s useful to note that there’s a passage in the Canon where the Buddha talks about ways of dealing with aversion, and one way is to develop equanimity. Another is to reflect on the principle of karma – that all beings are the owners of their actions. So for him, these were two … 
  3. The River Gauge
     … patience and equanimity. Talk to yourself in ways that can develop these qualities. Of course, when the Buddha talks about the qualities of mind you need to get the mind into concentration and he talks about how to make equanimity really solid—and not small-minded or small-hearted equanimity—he mentions that you have to have some joy as well. So as you … 
  4. The Dhamma Protects
     … That’s when the equanimity and patience bear their real fruit. After all, we’re not here just to be equanimous and patient, we’re here for freedom. That’s what the essence of the practice is. That’s what the heartwood of the practice is. And freedom lies beyond equanimity, beyond patience. It comes from discernment, when you see how you’re causing … 
  5. Breath Meditation
     … I once heard some people talking about the problems they had with equanimity, but what they were actually talking about were the problems they have with the idea of equanimity. But if you can learn how to embody equanimity along with friendliness, compassion, and empathetic joy with the breath, then you don’t have to worry about your reactions to abstract ideas. You start … 
  6. Friends & Enemies
     … This is where equanimity comes it: It allows you to see the reality of a situation. So equanimity is an important part of being proactive in a skillful way. We all too often think of equanimity as indifference, not caring about anything. But the Buddha’s type of equanimity is the equanimity that’s part of wanting to do something well, and to keep … 
  7. Equanimity & Karma
    The reflection on equanimity just now focused on karma: Each of us is the owner of our karma. If you don’t understand the teaching on karma, it sounds kind of pessimistic and fatalistic. As people do their thing, we have our karma. We just have to put up with it. But actually, it’s pointing out what you have to put up with … 
  8. Factors for Awakening
     … But we’re not practicing these things just to arrive at equanimity. That’s another problem with seeing the awakening factors as a map of the enlightened mind. Many people think, “Well, all you need to do is arrive at equanimity and there you are: nibbana.” But that’s not the case. Nibbana is not the ultimate equanimity. It’s the ultimate happiness. Equanimity … 
  9. Equanimity as a Factor of Awakening
     … And it’s important you understand what equanimity means here. The word actually has two meanings in the Canon. As a feeling, it means a feeling halfway between joy and grief: neither-joy-nor-grief. But as a factor for awakening, it means something else. It’s the ability to watch, to look at things without getting carried away. It means a basic state … 
  10. To Comprehend Craving
     … All you need is some contentment, some patience, some equanimity. But when the Buddha explained craving, it was something much deeper than that. The equanimity that comes from just accepting things in the senses the Buddha called worldly equanimity. It’s the lowest stage of equanimity, and there are two stages higher than that. There’s the equanimity that comes from getting the mind … 
  11. Sanity for the Holidays
     … It’s in this way that dealing with other people, showing patience and showing equanimity, actually do benefit you. These qualities become your guarantees that you’re not going to overreact and you’re not going to react in unskillful ways. Patience is the not reacting, whereas equanimity is maintaining an emotional even keel. Both of these require talking to yourself, reminding yourself that … 
  12. Endurance & Equanimity
    Endurance and equanimity are two virtues that are very similar but they’re not quite the same. With equanimity, the mind is not affected by things it likes or doesn’t like. It has an ability to stay on an even keel. With endurance, you’re dealing with things you don’t like. Whether the mind is on an even keel or not, you … 
  13. Steps in Concentration
     … As we go through life, we have to develop a lot of equanimity. But the Buddha said there’s what he calls household equanimity, where you have to will yourself to be equanimous, and then there’s renunciate equanimity, which comes from getting the mind firmly concentrated. Ajaan Fuang would make a distinction between what he called small-hearted equanimity and large-hearted. Small … 
  14. Lessons from the Breath
     … Then in the areas of the breath where you can’t make it go where you’d like, you have to develop equanimity. So you’ve got lessons in all four brahmaviharas: goodwill, compassion, appreciation or empathetic joy, and equanimity. When you learn how to deal with the breath this way, it’s a lot easier to deal with other people as well. So … 
  15. Facing Danger & Hardship
     … And so, you should make a resolve, “I’m going to follow the Buddha’s teachings.” And Saripuuta says you also try to develop what he called skillful equanimity. Notice he places a condition on it: It has to be skillful. Not all equanimity is skillful. Indifference is not skillful; just giving up is not skillful, saying, “Well, I’ll just have to accept … 
  16. Developing the Heart
     … This is followed by *renunciate equanimity. *When you’ve attained that joy, you can look at the rest of the world with a lot more equanimity. This is a very different kind of equanimity from ordinary, everyday equanimity. The equanimity that many people will counsel when they say, “Well, learn how to accept things,” just stops right there: You have to force yourself not … 
  17. Mindfulness
     … We’re not here just to watch things arise and pass away, trying to be equanimous. There are times when equanimity is going to be needed, but not the type of equanimity that simply lets things take over, regardless of whether they’re good or bad. There are times when equanimity is skillful, and times when it’s not. You want to keep in … 
  18. The Wisdom of Equanimity
    Every evening, before the sit, we spread thoughts of goodwill, compassion, empathetic joy, and equanimity to set the stage for the meditation, to put us in the right frame of mind, to remind ourselves of our motivation and why we’re carrying that motivation out in precisely the way we are. The first three—good will, compassion, and empathetic joy—are of a piece … 
  19. The Bowl of Oil
     … Now, to maintain the equanimity we need in order to deal with these things, it’s not just enough to remind yourself to be equanimous. You’ve got to have a good foundation inside, and this is where the meditation comes in. You want to be able to create a state of being still, or at least have a still center here in the … 
  20. The Sublime Attitudes
     … immeasurable goodwill, immeasurable compassion, immeasurable appreciation, and immeasurable equanimity. We start out with goodwill not because it’s the least advanced of the qualities but because it’s the most essential, the most basic. On top of that you build the others: compassion, appreciation or sympathetic joy, and finally equanimity. A balanced mind is one that knows when to emphasize which of the four … 
  21. Helping Yourself by Helping Others
     … goodwill; sympathy—which can also be translated as kindness, the Pali word is (anukampa); patience or endurance; and equanimity. If you can develop these qualities in your relationships with other people, then you benefit. In all cases, these are qualities you have to develop when you’re being irritated by other people or angry at them. You’ve got to hold that irritation and … 
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