Equanimity is the naturally abiding capacity to abide in open-hearted non-reactivity and acceptance amidst life’s unfolding. It is an awareness-based, non-judgmental spaciousness in which events, states and emotions are held in attentive guardianship with language and thought used only insofar as is necessarily required. As the unchanged ground of being amidst the changing tides of experience, equanimity abides as a cardinal virtue of mindful presence which embraces the whole of life with unconditional compassionate neutrality.

See also: cessation experience, dependent origination, insight meditation, loving kindness, metta practice