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  2. 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 … 
  3. 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 … 
  4. 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 … 
  5. 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 … 
  6. 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 … 
  7. 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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