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Equanimity in Compassion - (Lovingkindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening) 56 mentions

• today i want to talk about equanimity it's the fourth of the brahma baharas
• and that's the third one and then the fourth one is this word equanimity and the pali what is pekka
• upright stays balanced and that's the broader meaning of equanimity in the way that the buddha more often used it
• relationship to beings this is what equanimity means it's hugely important factor in in compassion
• a kind of strength and sustainability that's very much part of what equanimity means strength sustainability
• other piece that's really important with equanimity is samadhi going back to you know
• and the power of samadhi in the deepening of equanimity so samadhi in the in the meta and the compassion
• quality in the being it actually leads to equanimity it's part of the natural progression of samadhi through
• that people actually descend uh to depth of equanimity and then in the course of that and this
• and months but in in the progression of that the equanimity 2 gets kind of sewn into the being and it's really something
• practice if it happens self and equanimity have a very in a way clear and interesting
• self-sense the stronger the self-sense the less the equanimity it's actually that simple there's either one or the
• but as the self-sense gets quiet as the ego gets quiet equanimity is the natural uh the natural state there's less self
• how's it all going and equanimity is a natural settling of when there's when there's less self
• spaciousness space is also really significant factor of equanimity so we could talk about equanimity as
• significant factor of equanimity so we could talk about equanimity as being steadiness and balance but it's
• also kind of spaciousness that's a very prominent feature of of equanimity now both of these uh whether it's the
• influence politically a big part of bringing equanimity and is actually seeing uh
• and uh equanimity that just to be really clear is is not a kind of
• indifference is actually what the near enemy of equanimity so it can look like equanimity because like i'm fine if you
• enemy of equanimity so it can look like equanimity because like i'm fine if you if you get healed fine if you suffer
• so indifference is what can look like equanimity but it's and this is this is quite interesting
• suffering and the question for equanimity is can the compassion stay steady and stay strong but stay tender
• balance with a sense of freedom balance with the sense of equanimity so this balance is not a tightrope it's not
• happen as the wisdom deepens as the equanimity leaves also as the compassionately
• myself and other cells and that brings the compassion it brings the equanimity and and in a whole other level there's
• compassion in a way that there's equanimity for it okay so at the beginning of talk i said
• the the most usual way the buddha talked about equanimity was not so much in relation to beings but in relation to
• with that steadiness with it is what equanimity is all conditions absolutely all conditions
• how steady can the heart be with them so often when equanimity is talked about um
• and and the question is well how can i develop equanimity the contemplation of impermanence is usually given as the the
• that's actually bringing a sense of freedom bringing a sense of equanimity and to if we're choosing impairments as
• somebody now naturally move into equanimity naturally and organically equanimity is is
• equanimity naturally and organically equanimity is is um a state that keeps the money
• okay how does it deepen how does equanimity deepen actually deepens by letting go of
• something the more the being moves into equanimity is actually that simple and we can do this at subtler and
• more comes and it just goes deeper and deeper that's how equanimity deepens one
• self so identifying with things another way that equanimity deepens is by just letting go of identification
• letting go of identification letting go of identification and equanimity kind of descend
• the retreat now but as a state when there is a sense of equanimity deepening the other factor uh that that
• so it has a certain uh feeling tone equanimity to a certain peacefulness a certain stillness and
• you know things we get excited about generally not in places of equanimity they're in places of the self getting
• and just stillness and just stillness and just equanimity that can be for many many people it's in a quiet place
• being able to to really open to equanimity so in one's life certainly in the samadhi it's also a basis but in
• sometimes we lose our balance we lose our equanimity in relationship to a situation either in or outer because we
• subtle this is the movement into equanimity and similar to the practice that we're
• was something that's almost nothing that's a very deep level of equanimity and then at that level we may think well
• hasn't it completely turned round so used to think used to define equanimity as being a steadiness in relation to
• heart just stays steady as the equanimity really deepens not much really arises anyway there's
• there's a real beauty in there so again sometimes we hear this word equanimity it's a strange word as i said
• immeasurable and that brings a really deep equanimity and also a really deep love a really deep compassion
• seeing that understanding that brings equanimity as i said but brings very deep compassion because it's got very
• through different stages and and there will be equanimity yeah so that's one way the other way is i'm more a kind of
• alive and soft and deepening in equanimity all of those things and and some of the clinging it gets extremely
• there it's almost like you can filter out the equanimity and choose to focus in on that and then
• no between a much more between a more open kind of equanimity yeah yeah does that make sense

The Development of Equanimity: Introduction and First Instructions - (Equanimity) 53 mentions

• and the theme is equanimity uh equanimity has lots of different
• equanimity uh equanimity has lots of different meanings in the tradition and one of the
• meanings one of the most common meanings is actually equanimity in relationship to compassion
• the limitations of my efforts that's equanimity in relationship to compassion
• retreat on that but that meaning of equanimity is not what we're going to be talking about this weekend
• teachings but not the focus rather the focus of this retreat is equanimity in relationship to all the conditions of
• adverse and what is it to have equanimity in the face of all of that
• so the buddha has this visual image for equanimity and it's
• rooted there the buddha says that's what equanimity is like it's this unshakability
• wonderful image and can be very helpful sometimes our equanimity has different shades has different kind of aspects to
• it so equanimity can actually be a very spacious state very very open and
• there is a balance in it maybe another way of saying what equanimity is a balance or steadiness
• relationship with what's going on that's what equanimity is really about it's somehow defining uh the state of the
• so we could also describe equanimity as a kind of calming of reactivity
• of being disconnected or cold so equanimity is not a cold state we could call something
• experience has been painted gray that's not equanimity that's what we would call indifferent indifference when everything
• just seems a bit blah when it's indifferent and equanimity can slip into indifference it's important to
• closes the heart and it closes us down so equanimity rather is actually very alive it has a quality of real aliveness
• to it there's a real beauty in equine in the state of equanimity and also warmth and and love
• about that and he says it's what's called an the near enemy of equanimity near enemy means it can kind of look
• and we can be in a state of indifference but actually it's not equanimity thing is though and i really want to
• gradual process of really learning equanimity and developing equanimity and what that means is on that journey we
• let that happen so that we know the difference between real equanimity and indifference
• indifference the other thing to say about equanimity as a state is it's not a kind of on off
• degrees or a spectrum of equity we can talk about equanimity deepening and the buddha talked about sometimes
• and the buddha talked about sometimes you talked about equanimity being the highest emotion of a human being the
• emotion and aspire to that state of equanimity as a quietening of our emotionality but that is absolutely not
• path both this quietening of the emotional life and equanimity and the richness of it
• maybe going through something right now and if we talk about equanimity it doesn't mean that we're shutting the
• is to let all that go quiet and experience equanimity move into equanimity do i know both
• and experience equanimity move into equanimity do i know both am i able to do both and am i free to
• a person might see a retreat titled equanimity and think to themselves
• think to themselves boy i sure could use some equanimity and in fact several people have said
• we cannot we absolutely cannot isolate equanimity from any other part of the path it's not
• meditative tools that work towards equanimity some of the i'm going to go into two on this retreat some of the
• that this these kind of practices lead to equanimity how does equanimity come about how does the path work
• well when we talk about equanimity the buddha talked about it a lot many many many
• factors on the path kind of lead to equanimity and in a way converge in equanimity
• equanimity and in a way converge in equanimity some of you will be familiar from some
• lists in them these lists and these are synthesis and oftentimes when equanimity gets mentioned it's at the end of a list
• this and cultivate this and the kind of fruition is equanimity so it would be great if we could uh
• dispense some pills and there we go there's some equanimity now there are pills you can get
• here but probably they'll lean more towards indifference than equanimity uh
• but just to say that the deepest equanimity actually comes from that it comes from that awakening it comes from
• but it's part of this context to also saying oh i need some equanimity to say well if i ask
• understand at times but equanimity is one of the beautiful facts on the path is available to us as
• going to go into this a little bit equanimity comes almost um to some degree easily and naturally
• relativized and a kind of simplicity and equanimity comes into the life very naturally in
• ability to shift priorities which feeds our equanimity so that might
• in surrendering to the simplicity already there's a kind of equanimity there don't have to should i should i go
• can come if we're talking about equanimity equanimity needs clarity at a kind of much more deep level and
• time to go for a walk and be in nature and those things too feed equanimity now gavin in the office
• um this this aspect of letting b is as an approach to equanimity we have to see that in the context of the whole path so

The Fourth Jhana - (Practising the Jhānas) 43 mentions

• enters and remains in the fourth genre which is purity of equanimity and mindfulness neither pleasure nor pain
• it's upeka and upeka we've been talking last year is equanimity so technically at least in the commentaries etc in the
• here are ekagata and upeka so one thing prominent and equanimity we talked about equanimity a little bit
• prominent and equanimity we talked about equanimity a little bit already we'll talk about a little bit
• right direction i would say stillness i wouldn't actually there is equanimity and that's important etc but i would say
• question came up a couple of times about equanimity so if i abandon
• what i basically i would say it basically says there's equanimity that's that's all we need to worry about
• about remember we were defining equanimity yesterday when it came up in the q a as not an on off switch not a
• not i have it or i don't but a spectrum to the degree that there is equanimity to that degree there is the uh
• reduction of the push and pull there is the reduction of clinging so equanimity is a spectrum and another way of saying
• it's pointing to a state of deep equanimity now as i said it came up yesterday
• contexts in which the buddha talks about equanimity and it's a really interesting subject this fourth genre is what the
• subject this fourth genre is what the buddha would call equanimity based on singleness in contradiction or in
• complement to what on other occasions he talks about equanimity based on multiplicity so you've got equanimity
• talks about equanimity based on multiplicity so you've got equanimity based on singles equanimity based on
• multiplicity so you've got equanimity based on singles equanimity based on multiplicity
• what's this singular multiplicity of phenomena so you've got equanimity based on many in others equanimity in
• phenomena so you've got equanimity based on many in others equanimity in relationship to many phenomena happening
• stillness bright white light stillness it's just so it's an equanimity based on there's nothing else happening it's just
• that the body all the rest of it is just that so it's an equanimity based on singleness you understand versus
• singleness you understand versus equanimity based on multiplicity which we touched on yesterday an example was
• um and then victor was asking about the word equanimity we say we kind of um
• here's those conditions or those opposites and we can have equanimity in relationship to those uh
• me i'm an idiot whatever it is and the mind can have equanimity in relation to both so what that means at
• important but it's a kind of more superficial level of equanimity what that means is we talked about is
• that means is we talked about is equipoise equi equanimity means equine from i'm guessing from anima equal
• in in the q a we can have deeper levels of equanimity so for example i'm following on the example i used
• um and so it can deepen the equanimity there can deepen
• and the opposites were at a more superficial level of equanimity we were economists in relation to two things
• end of the road and nor is it the deep the deepest end of equanimity because i think as i also mentioned yesterday the
• think as i also mentioned yesterday the sort of limit of equanimity that's possible
• so there are then in that ultra deep equanimity no objects things sensations phenomena
• so there's a there's a strange paradox in the depth of equanimity the the truest equanimity can't really
• in the depth of equanimity the the truest equanimity can't really be regarded as an equanimity because
• the the truest equanimity can't really be regarded as an equanimity because there's nothing there to be economist
• anyway here we have in the fourth genre an instance of equanimity based on singleness in in complement two in in
• genre something like that and it's deep equanimity there's meta pregnant in it but it's it's a state of non-ill will
• well i say two things the stillness and equanimity in the third genre so third genre has peacefulness but as i
• noticing and then tuning to we're only tuning to the stillness or equanimity in the third genre and or noticing and
• teaching but it's related to what i said about equanimity as we let go of more and more clinging
• thing to to notice to look out for and notice it's still a state of equanimity of mindfulness of clear awareness and
• um purity of push-pull purity of equanimity so again
• might it also point again um to equanimity which we've been talking about and the quietening of the

The Birth of a Bodhisattva - (Lovingkindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening) 31 mentions

• and this is where the fourth brahm of ahara equanimity comes in how does that come in to
• catherine talked about yesterday and equanimity and i'm sure catherine said this but
• actually when the buddha talked about equanimity most of the time he meant equanimity in relation to all things and
• equanimity most of the time he meant equanimity in relation to all things and all conditions so it wasn't just in
• actually what i want to go into more today equanimity in its relationship to compassion the way that equanimity needs
• today equanimity in its relationship to compassion the way that equanimity needs to be there at the base of compassion to
• and so this is really where the equanimity needs to come in so questions how does that come into the
• very deep way to to the compassion practice this equanimity so
• steadiness and this unshakable quality all of which are factors of equanimity coming in
• the mudita is actually also a basis for equanimity when we have joy when we're familiar and have familiar access with a
• and then naturally actually ripens into equanimity when we're doing the compassion practice
• and with that attachment to the results the less equanimity in the compassion did you see that
• is also a quality of an aspect of equanimity very much so so when there's suffering
• a spaciousness around that suffering is is a color a face of equanimity and so in this practice the more that we can
• and in that vastness of holding there is equanimity with the compassion mixed in with the
• tendency that can open and brings a lot of equanimity one possibility
• that and this is partly why equanimity is is i want to speak about it it's so
• important equanimity needs to come in when we talked about near enemies and
• enemies of compassion the near enemy of equanimity something that looks like it but on closer inspection is really not
• it the near energy near enemy of equanimity is indifference it's just the hearts actually shut down
• cold disinterested disconnected whereas equanimity is actually open it's still tender it's still soft it's interested
• dressed up in spiritual language but it's it's it's not equanimity so spiritual language in different
• so compassion and particularly compassion with equanimity in it has two factors which i want to say a bit about
• immeasurable through loving kindness and compassion or joy or equanimity one of the brand of hearts immeasurable that
• little bit what this might mean this faith gives equanimity to the compassion
• heart and everything that brings out generosity and equanimity and samadhian meta and love all those qualities
• brings a lot of compassion traditionally with equanimity towards beings there are phrases
• read them so this is traditionally equanimity practices introduced when one's been doing a lot of compassion
• one drops in these these reflections of equanimity he said
• sometimes with this compassion and equanimity we can feel as if we're walking a tightrope and somehow we have
• i was going to say a little more about equanimity in terms of all conditions but i'll stop there

Equanimity - (Silent Autumn Retreat, Finland) 30 mentions

• the theme tonight is equanimity this is a uncommon word in english as
• wonder what does it mean what does it mean equanimity what does it mean so one very simple one maybe some of the
• they've got the um the that's an example of what equanimity is not okay okay
• the buddha when he talked about equanimity pointed out some particular situations which every
• this is what you have to kind of develop your equanimity with you talked about what's called the eight worldly
• the near enemy in is it funny it means it looks like equanimity but if you look a little closer it's
• actually it's quite different it with equanimity the heart is actually open there is a warmth there there's a
• disconnection a coldness and aloofness also very important that this equanimity that the buddha spoke so highly of
• that the buddha spoke so highly of equanimity really praised it as equality it's not um
• um oftentimes not always but oftentimes the quality of equanimity actually is very spacious it feels very special it
• so we can cultivate equanimity we can cultivate equanimity it's something that
• we can cultivate equanimity we can cultivate equanimity it's something that we can develop we don't have to kind of
• maybe if we're lucky we'll have a little bit of equanimity it's something we can actually move towards we can develop it
• so kobe this morning talked about mind states in a way equanimity is a mind state it's a state of mind
• sense of ambition oh i'm going to develop equanimity i'm going to develop loving kindness i'm going to develop my
• we're not like this and measuring now actually with equanimity there is a way you can measure
• there is a way you can measure sort of how you're doing with equanimity so check it out
• anymore right now about that another way that economic equanimity gets built is just in in our humble
• something else we're training in equanimity because a mind that is not equanimous is caught up in something
• this actually is also on the road to equanimity as the as the practice of calmness deepens can come very nicely
• returning to the breath still building this equanimity by virtue of not getting so caught up in things
• i want to talk a little bit about another approach to equanimity that's not that commonly spoken about
• through it from that comes more and more equanimity more and more steadiness we are less
• conditions and other other avenues into this equanimity we say can we see the emptiness of them
• and that peace is on its way to equanimity we might also
• there's a tibetan teacher who defines equanimity as to be equally near all things to be equally near all things
• no objects so this equanimity is the letting go of the the relaxing of the push and pull
• no objects no problem in a way the whole meaning of equanimity is turned on its head because equanimity
• in a way the whole meaning of equanimity is turned on its head because equanimity means being steady in the face of
• brings in a way the deepest equanimity because even when something seems bad we kind of

The Unshakeable Heart (Part 1) - (Equanimity) 28 mentions

• and how that builds equanimity and also go somewhere towards painting a bit of a
• of how it is that equanimity develops for us develops in the heart develops in the
• so different uh equanimities built in different ways is many factors lead
• he's suggesting we cultivate lead to equanimity but they also lead to happiness so just take a handful from
• all of those qualities lead to equanimity and some of them it's obvious it would
• be obvious how wisdom for example leads to equanimity but something like aspiration or renunciation
• the sake of discovering something about happiness and so about equanimity generosity brings with it happiness
• buddha talks about equanimity based on multiplicity and equanimity based on singleness it sounds
• equanimity based on multiplicity and equanimity based on singleness it sounds a little funny what we're working on in
• a little funny what we're working on in this retreat is equanimity based on multiplicity in other words here's all
• where we're seeing if we can develop an equanimity if we can encourage an equanimity
• equanimity if we can encourage an equanimity there's another kind of equanimity it's
• equanimity there's another kind of equanimity it's not really another kind it's coming from
• not really another kind it's coming from a different angle called equanimity based on singleness the mind gathers in
• marked and strong joy and that joy deepens into equanimity very very strong powerful equanimity and that equanimity
• deepens into equanimity very very strong powerful equanimity and that equanimity then can be used in relation to the
• feeling of alignment is a total equanimity but there will be more peace there because of that even if you fail
• something that is important in terms of equanimity so perspective is really important with
• introduced is around non-reactivity and equanimity said last night one of the definitions can be
• retreat after a group interview she just left me a quick note is equanimity the same as acceptance no it sort of got me
• non-reactivity acceptance is a big part of equanimity but
• balance it's in a state of non-equanimity it's off balance we're actually
• that big a deal and that will lead to equanimity but that doesn't deny that all food is
• pointing to what we're talking about equanimity and the sort of vantage point of equanimity
• equanimity and the sort of vantage point of equanimity says at the still point of the turning
• and begin to get this sense as the equanimity deepens as the mindfulness actually deepens the non-reactivity
• the mindfulness deepens as the equanimity deepens the letting go deepens
• emptiness and non-duality in relationship to equanimity but i will put up the time tomorrow morning when i

Wisdom, Art, Balance (Part 1) - (Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire) 26 mentions

• and the art of balance and bringing equanimity in to bear on this whole in and with this whole exploration of eros
• sort of picture of calm and cool equanimity and stillness um where is your tendency of
• factors elements if we talk a bit about equanimity you know which is obviously a key a key word
• desire and passion and eros and all that equanimity we may wonder well what about the equanimity or i have a lot of eros
• equanimity we may wonder well what about the equanimity or i have a lot of eros and uh i i keep getting falling over or
• um floored by by my desire or whatever so equanimity um what does that mean how does it come
• in in relation to this path so in equanimity implies uh several things we could say implies balance
• when when there's a lot of eros so equanimity implies balance what what what would it what does this whole word
• out or collapsing inwards or something but equanimity implies balance it inquires this implies this kind of
• implied in that um but what does it mean equanimity in our life and in our practice and in
• um we often hear about or we might first think about when we consider equanimity as a sort of um word in buddha dharma
• some of you will know for from meditation that really deep equanimity or experiences of deep equanimity when
• meditation that really deep equanimity or experiences of deep equanimity when there's really this kind of
• unfabricated so experiences of deep equanimity are our experiences of much less fabrication uh you know on spectrum
• experience of spaciousness is also connected with that deep equanimity often is an experience of of deep
• sometimes blackness so blackness and equanimity we touched on this in the last retreat
• characteristic of states of meditative states of deep equanimity and they bring
• disengagement or actually there can be all the fruits of that deep equanimity and still an engagement
• blackness the um the uh the deep equanimity the space around it that we can open to
• desire the desire for equanimity in life for balance i would actually say is not a
• soul desire it's not something we don't really have eros about equanimity like we can really want it but it it cannot
• imagine that it could function as a kind of soulmaking object for us equanimity um
• knowing of that can be a deep soul desire the desire for equanimity that comes out of here
• um it's really helpful in our life to have equanimity to have some coolness to have some perspective it's soothing it's
• constrained freedom maybe constrains the equanimity in some regards but as i've just explained on the other hand at the
• brings a kind of deep freedom at certain levels and also equanimity as a sale in relation to the big things

Wisdom, Art, Balance (Part 2) - (Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire) 25 mentions

• a little bit of trust and we talked about equanimity and some other things so let's let's pick that up and and
• janus there's a connection here the equanimity samadhi um
• dipping in and out to that brings uh equanimity in general in our life and balance and again balance with
• important to know why and how samadhi is good for for this business of equanimity if i have the wrong understanding has
• as we've been saying so let's say the samadhi equanimity ethics
• said before you know those states of deep equanimity relatively deep equanimity can also be very not solid so
• deep equanimity relatively deep equanimity can also be very not solid so the feeling with them is of real
• insubstantiality of things that's partly where the equanimity comes from there's a not so much ethereality but yeah
• practice that orientation in practice there is a state of deep equanimity of relative unfabrication but it emphasizes
• solidity sometimes gives balance and equanimity and sometimes the exact opposite is part or an element in in our
• opposite is part or an element in in our experience of equanimity that gives gives us balance
• solidity but giving a kind of balance and equanimity and there's also uh third here in this
• micro movements uh this way and that so these equanimity giving qualities that we've been talking about summer
• that we've been talking about summer tire spacious awareness equanimity itself
• um meta even we should mention and these equanimity giving qualities it's not necessary for them to be there all the
• very distant future this quality of deep equanimity or this deep dark space of non-fabrication relative non-fabrication
• have that nourishment that stillness that or that sense of equanimity all that
• the trust as the frequency of access and trust that supports the our equanimity in life and and with regard to eros
• away from or de-emphasize mindfulness and equanimity etc but um
• gets shrunken to just mindfulness or just a vision of equanimity and really just wanting to open that up
• intensively um developing mindfulness and equanimity to really you know
• think certain people have a more natural disposition to um to to equanimity but also to mindfulness in fact
• um opposite or let go of the emphasis on so much mindfulness and equanimity all the time
• there comes a time to question even the whole ideal of balance and equanimity or or a question once clinging to the
• developing skills and are of of balance and equanimity etc with respect to eros

Q & A, and Short Talk (2) - (Practising the Jhānas) 23 mentions

• he the monk practicing remains in equanimity mindful and alert and physically sensitive to sukkah
• fading of rapture he remains an equanimity mindfulness and physically sensitive to to sukkah he enters and
• with the fading of pt he remains in equanimity mindful and alert mindful is sati
• sati um equanimity upeka in pali you probably know those words the alert the actual
• isn't mindfulness and alertness and equanimity in the third genre that absolutely is
• so yes there's mindfulness yes there's alertness and yes there's equanimity but we would expect mindfulness and
• mindfulness alertness and yes there's equanimity but let's come back to that one at the end because most people what
• one will understand by the word equanimity based either on one's daily life
• focus on the other words right now there is equanimity i'll come back to that so
• it a satellite non-jarnic state of equanimity or peacefulness um as we've mentioned several times in here and i've
• back to the end today that will take you into some or other state of equanimity um
• this peacefulness is mindfulness there's equanimity there's alertness etc but it's unlikely
• uh you know that kind of non-jarnic equanimity peacefulness state can get kind of
• of more familiar insight state of equanimity um with with very careful work play goes
• sort of relatively skillful piece or or equanimity so like i said this
• peaceful sort of states that we might know of equanimity or peace to a certain degree and what we might call might call
• of words like happiness and peacefulness and equanimity doesn't really capture the kind of degree and depth and beauty
• and pull we let go of equanimity also which is a kind of peacefulness will come back to it arises
• about ways of living neither um equanimity also which is the kind of peacefulness arises from an attenuation
• that of the the equanimity that the buddha is talking about in the third john and that
• talking about in the third john and that degree of equanimity so the equanimity that buddha is talking
• degree of equanimity so the equanimity that buddha is talking about in the third journalist is a
• just undisturbable undisturbable is another word for equanimity or imperturbable the buddha sometimes uses

Eros and the Brahmaviharas - (Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire) 22 mentions

• loving kindness compassion joy and equanimity um
• um equanimity is something you may know that we can talk about in two ways in
• implicitly made this distinction um equanimity towards beings so there it's related to compassion practice we
• is a part of what supports the equanimity towards the beings in the context of compassion towards beings
• something extend ourselves uh but as well as equanimity towards beings we can have uh the buddha the
• beings we can have uh the buddha the buddha talked about equanimity in a way that what he's really referring to is
• that what he's really referring to is equanimity towards phenomena pleasant or unpleasant uh
• losing it so there's a kind of equanimity and evenness um
• phenomena pleasant unpleasant beautiful ugly etc so equanimity um is uh has is is possible to practice
• um is uh has is is possible to practice equanimity have equanimity in relation to beings and in relationship to
• erotic relationship but like it like equanimity eros can also be towards beings and towards phenomena
• compassion um or equanimity um
• measure of directing meta or compassionate phenomena or equanimity or equanimity towards phenomena or towards
• compassionate phenomena or equanimity or equanimity towards phenomena or towards another
• deserts kind of ah wow phew um and and with all that equanimity comes in the vastness
• um compassion and love um and holding equanimity and steadiness that are sort of there and perceivable
• um love and the equanimity that then imbues that love that loving kindness and
• um that's part of the movement towards less fabrication has more equanimity in it as well
• and again and perhaps surprisingly um a natural effortless equanimity can come
• the bravo harris it's a natural equanimity in relationship let's say to the suffering
• practice very quickly realizes the need for equanimity there that's the harp opens and confronting suffering opening
• there's a kind of natural recognition and sense of equanimity that pervades and supports the compassion