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  2. Do Jhana
     … attitudes of unlimited goodwill, compassion, empathetic joy, and equanimity. Sometimes, when you’re sitting and meditating, the face of somebody you know may appear: somebody you like, somebody you don’t like, somebody from your past, somebody you don’t recognize at all. Your first reaction should always be goodwill for that person, to cut through any of the narratives that might come in … 
  3. Watching Over Time
     … He says that when the mind seems to have too much energy, you should try to use calming qualities, like calm, concentration, and equanimity. When the mind is too sluggish, you should try to develop qualities that are more enlivening, like actively analyzing what’s going on in the present moment, putting in effort, being really persistent in what you’re doing, and trying … 
  4. Kindfulness
     … conviction, persistence, mindfulness, alertness, concentration, discernment, goodwill, compassion, empathetic joy, equanimity. These are all good qualities to develop. As for the word qualities here, it’s best to think of them as habits you develop in the mind. That’s because it’s more useful to think of the mind in terms of what it’s doing than in terms of what it is … 
  5. Toward Release
     … And then the next question is, what do you do with that calm? What do you do with the concentration and equanimity that go along with it? The Buddha talks about developing the factors for awakening even further. He says that, based on seclusion—by which he means the mind secluded in concentration—you try to develop dispassion. You do that by looking at … 
  6. Days Fly Past
     … As for what you did in the past, you don’t want to carry that around as a burden, but in case there are things in the past that are burdensome to the mind, the best way to deal with them is to try to develop as much goodwill, compassion, appreciation, equanimity as you can in the present moment. Try to make these qualities … 
  7. Gaining the Dhamma Eye
     … As the Buddha said, if you develop immeasurable goodwill, compassion, empathetic joy, and equanimity, the results of past bad karma will be minimized, because of the large and abundant quality of your mind. So this is what the Dhamma requires. Practice the Dhamma in accordance with the Dhamma. You tell yourself, “I’m going to put my preferences aside and really shape my life … 
  8. Fabrication at the Breath
     … I just sit and try to be very equanimous in the present moment as I breathe in and breathe out.” And the Buddha said, “There is that kind of breath meditation, but,” he said, “it doesn’t give great fruit or great benefit.” So he took the opportunity to teach a type of breath meditation that did give great fruit and great benefit. He … 
  9. The Walls of Ignorance
     … Then, when they’re down and we can really see, we use equanimity to gauge for ourselves where we actually have been skillful and where we haven’t. That way we can learn from our mistakes. As the Buddha once said, “One of the signs of wisdom is in seeing your own foolishness.” At least that’s the beginning of your quest for knowledge … 
  10. Focus on the Doing
     … The path to the end of suffering includes right concentration, which includes rapture, pleasure, both physical pleasure and mental pleasure, along with strong solid states of equanimity. When you’ve learned how to tap into that skill, then the desire to practice becomes more strongly based, and the path becomes enjoyable in and of itself. As it becomes enjoyable, then the second base for … 
  11. Worlds
     … In other words, try to be as equanimous as possible, as uninvolved as possible in the process. Stay with the breath as much as you consciously can. As you keep this up, after a while the storms begin to calm down. Then, if you’re holding onto the breath consistently enough, you can begin to see things a bit more precisely. You see more … 
  12. Basics
     … If you’re having a problem with anger, work on goodwill and equanimity. There are meditation topics that help foster those qualities. If you’re having a problem with lust and desire, contemplate the body in terms of its parts. Notice that when you’re attracted to a body, it’s not the whole body you’re attracted to. It’s only certain parts … 
  13. Lessons in Fabrication
     … pleasure and refreshment or just pleasure or equanimity. Those are the things we’re working on. As you get more and more sensitive to how these processes put together a state of concentration, it gives you insight into how you create other states of becoming as you go through the day. And when you know how to create them, you also know how to … 
  14. Slowing Down to Look
     … a mind settled in good strong concentration, where mindfulness and equanimity become pure. Or you have the alertness and the mindfulness you need. The mindfulness is to keep in mind that you always want to do the skillful thing, always want to go with the skillful intention. The alertness is to see, “Okay, what are the signs by which I can tell which is … 
  15. Analyzing Suffering
     … As the Buddha said, the ultimate attachment is to these very high states of jhana, the equanimity that comes with neither perception nor non-perception. That’s the ultimate clinging. But if you learn from the practice to this extent, you realize, okay, true happiness comes from letting go even of that amount of attachment. You let go. In that case, you don’t … 
  16. Preparing to Die Well
     … Tune in to that sense of equanimity. That way you calm down the mental fabrication. It’s by holding onto these more subtle perceptions, cultivating and developing them, that you’re able to let go of grosser things. Which means that the path begins by combining developing and letting go. Even though eventually we try to let go of all states of becoming, we … 
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