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	Equanimity: A Dharma Talk by Ryuei
		Equanimity is the final term of the four divine abodes, and could also be called the finale.
		Equanimity, however, is the feeling of even-mindedness in the face of both suffering and joy.
		Then begin to cultivate equanimity for yourself by considering the both the good and bad things that you have experienced and how all these things are passing manifestations of causes and conditions which are not fixed and have no substance.
	nichirenscoffeehouse.net /Ryuei/Equanimity.html (1226 words)

	Meditation: Sublime States: Equanimity (upekkha)
		To establish equanimity as an unshakable state of mind, one has to give up all possessive thoughts of "mine", beginning with little things from which it is easy to detach oneself, and gradually working up to possessions and aims to which one's whole heart clings.
		Equanimity is the crown and culmination of the four sublime states.
		But this should not be understood to mean that equanimity is the nega-tion of love, compassion, and sympathetic joy, or that it leaves them behind as inferior.
	www.buddhanet.net /ss06.htm (1180 words)

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		Equanimity is one of the most sublime emotions of Buddhist practice.
		Equanimity is a protection from the "eight worldly winds": praise and blame, success and failure, pleasure and pain, fame and disrepute.
		Another way wisdom supports equanimity is in understanding that people are responsible for their own decisions, which helps us to find equanimity in the face of other people's suffering.
	www.insightmeditationcenter.org /articles/equanimity.html (1078 words)

	BRAHMA VIHARAS: The Four Sublime States
		Until equanimity has reached perfection, compassion urges it to enter again and again the battle of the world, in order to be able to stand the test, by hardening and strengthening itself.
		Equanimity, being a vigilant self-control for the sake of the final goal, does not allow sympathetic joy to rest content with humble results, forgetting the real aims we have to strive for.
		Equanimity furnishes compassion with an even, unwavering courage and fearlessness, enabling it to face the awesome abyss of misery and despair which confront boundless compassion again and again.
	sped2work.tripod.com /4emotions.html (1699 words)

	Wings to Awakening: Part III-G
		The word "equanimity" is used in the Canon in two basic senses: 1) a neutral feeling in the absense of pleasure and pain, and 2) an attitude of even-mindedness in the face of every sort of experience, regardless of whether pleasure and pain are present or not.
		The next stage is to use this equanimity to bring on the state of equipoise called non-fashioning (atammayata), although §183 shows that non-fashioning can be attained directly from any of the stages of jhana, and not just the formless ones.
		The equanimity that arises when -- experiencing the inconstancy of those very forms, their change, fading, and cessation -- one sees with right discernment as it actually is that all forms, past or present, are inconstant, stressful, subject to change: This equanimity goes beyond form, which is why it is called renunciation equanimity.
	www.accesstoinsight.org /lib/authors/thanissaro/wings/3g.html (3269 words)

	Equanimity in Concentration and Discernment
		The equanimity that arises when a foolish, deluded person-a run-of-the-mill, untaught person who has not conquered his limitation or the results of action and who is blind to danger-sees a form with the eye.
		The equanimity that arises when-experiencing the inconstancy of those very forms, their change, fading, and cessation-one sees with right discernment as it actually is that all forms, past or present, are inconstant, stressful, subject to change: This equanimity goes beyond the form, which is why it is called renunciation equanimity.
		There is equanimity dependent on the sphere of the infinitude of space, equanimity dependent on the sphere of the infinitude of consciousness...dependent on the sphere of nothingness...dependent on the sphere of neither perception nor non-perception.
	www.buddhanet.net /wingsag.htm (3390 words)

	Equanimity
		Equanimity is the English equivalent of the Sanskrit word SAAMMAAYIK, which is derived from 'SAMAYA'.
		In equanimity, on the other hand, there is an evenness of mind; no attachment toward friends and no aversion toward adversaries.
		To summarize, to achieve the state of equanimity, we should be realistic.
	www.jainstudy.org /jsc10.00-Equanimity.htm (1531 words)

	Equanimity
		In equanimity, we live in the world of presence, neither fettered nor buffeted by the inevitable turmoil of life.
		But equanimity does not build a spiritual ivory tower, insulated from all the cares and woes of living.
		Indeed, equanimity develops through our contact with that part of our soul that resides in the timeless.
	www.innerfrontier.org /Practices/Equanimity.htm (437 words)

	Equanimity
		Equanimity is a fundamental skill for self-exploration and emotional intelligence.
		Equanimity belies the adage that you cannot "have your cake and eat it too." When you apply equanimity to unpleasant sensations, they flow more readily and as a result cause less suffering.
		Furthermore, when feelings are experienced with equanimity, they assure their proper function as motivators and directors of behavior as opposed to driving and distorting behavior.
	www.shinzen.org /shinsub3/artEquanimity.htm (1070 words)

	The Berzin Archives - Equalizing and Exchanging Our Attitudes about Self and Others
		The equanimity that comes before recognizing everyone as having been our mothers in the seven-part cause and effect meditation involves visualizing a friend, an enemy, and a stranger and is the equanimity with which we stop having feelings of attachment and repulsion.
		It is the equanimity with which we have no feelings of close or far in the thoughts or actions involved in our benefiting and helping all limited beings and eliminating their problems.
		This is the way to develop the mere equanimity that is in common with that of the shravakas and pratyekabuddhas and which is developed as a preliminary to recognizing everyone as having been our mothers in the seven-part cause and effect method for developing a dedicated heart of bodhichitta.
	www.berzinarchives.com /sutra/sutra_level_2/equalizing_exchanging_attitudes.html (5303 words)

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		This equanimity is known by several names such as equality, quietude, Samadhi, Yoga, tranquility of mind, the state of self-experience, self-realization, and Nirvikalpa Samadhi.
		May my soul work hard to attain to a spirit of equanimity which is possible by abandoning attachment to the body and by becoming completely detached from all desires, passions and enjoyments.
		By resorting to the spirit of equanimity, one wins firm and steady happiness, attains the state of eternity, and shatters all the bonds due to Karmas.
	www.angelfire.com /co/jainism/chap09.txt (1592 words)

	Equanimity
		Equanimity is the liberating quality that allows us to keep our hearts open and balanced, quiet and steady, in the midst of all these changes.
		The person with equanimity simply allows the weather to be exactly the way it is and experiences exactly the way it is—without any judgement or emotional reaction.
		In the second chapter of John we read that Jesus "made a whip of cords, He drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen, and poured out the changers' money and overturned the tables." Both the feminine and the masculine were available to him.
	www.churchoftruth.org /articles/equanimity.html (3078 words)

	Jainism Literature Center - Articles
		As a means it is a practice for attaining equanimity while as an end it is the state in which self is completely free from the flickering of alternative desires and wishes as well as excitements and emotional disorders.
		Similarly in Bhagvat it is said that the observance of equanimity is the worship of Lord (13).
		The vectors of attachment and aversion are solely responsible for the disturbance of mental equanimity and so the practice to attain equanimity depends on the eradication of attachment and aversion.
	www.fas.harvard.edu /~pluralsm/affiliates/jainism/article/samayika.htm (1250 words)

	Wings to Awakening: Part III-G
		There is equanimity with regard to forms, equanimity with regard to sounds...smells...tastes...tactile sensations [and ideas: this word appears in one of the recensions].
		He [the meditator] discerns that 'If I were to direct equanimity as pure and bright as this toward the sphere of the infinitude of space, I would develop the mind along those lines, and thus this equanimity of mine -- thus supported, thus sustained -- would last for a long time.
		He discerns that 'If I were to direct equanimity as pure and bright as this toward the sphere of the infinitude of space and to develop the mind along those lines, that would be fabricated.
	here-and-now.org /wings.book/3g.html (3295 words)

	CHAPTER-48
		The essence of equanimity is to keep calm both in favourable and unfavourable circumstances, and not to be affected by emotional outbursts.
		Action influenced by equanimity is the greatest provision in the life of a sadhak.
		Equanimity creates a state of consciousness from which sprout the fountains of joy, in which the glands are activated and chemical changes take place.
	www.jainworld.com /preksha/tulsi/atpt48.htm (1147 words)

	What's Up
		These four -- love, compassion, sympathetic joy and equanimity -- are also known as the boundless states (appamanna), because, in their perfection and their true nature, they should not be narrowed by any limitation as to the range of beings towards whom they are extended.
		But this should not be understood to mean that equanimity is the negation of love, compassion and sympathetic joy, or that it leaves them behind as inferior.
		Holy equanimity, or -- as we may likewise express it -- the Arahat endowed with holy equanimity, is the inner center of the world.
	www.geocities.com /ekchew.geo/4sublime.htm (5770 words)

	Equanimity - Mankind's Ultimate Destiny?
		The detached fearless state of Equanimity is a state in which you are completely tranquil, and relaxed.
		In the state of equanimity you can perform all of your tasks with a heightened sense of knowingness.
		Living in a state of Equanimity is perhaps the closest expression of that consciousness on this plane.
	spiritualdove.com /equanimity___mankind_s_ultimate_destiny_.htm (3780 words)

	The Four Sublime States
		These four -- love, compassion, sympathetic joy and equanimity -- are also known as the boundless states (appamañña), because, in their perfection and their true nature, they should not be narrowed by any limitation as to the range of beings towards whom they are extended.
		Here, monks, a disciple dwells pervading one direction with his heart filled with equanimity, likewise the second, the third and the fourth direction; so above, below and around; he dwells pervading the entire world everywhere and equally with his heart filled with equanimity, abundant, grown great, measureless, free from enmity and free from distress.
		Holy equanimity, or -- as we may likewise express it -- the arahant endowed with holy equanimity, is the inner center of the world.
	www.accesstoinsight.org /lib/bps/wheels/wheel006.html (5257 words)

	Chapter 7. Reverence and Faith, The Road to Equanimity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Equanimity is reached through understanding and self-control which gives us insight and conserves strength to do the work we must, and create the things we can.
		With equanimity we remain emotionally calm with a clear perception of priorities in the presence of urgent work to be done.
		Equanimity requires the ability to quickly appraise a situation backed by knowledge and understanding that can be acquired only through study and experience.
	www.seanet.com /~realistic/chpt7.html (2882 words)

	Equanimity
		After a person is worthy of reaching the level of meditation, one may become worthy of Divine inspiration, and then one may become worthy of prophecy....
		In explanation of the secret of equanimity, Rabbi Avner told me the following: A rabbi once came to one of the meditative Kabbalists and requested of him to be accepted as an initiate.
		For until such time that you have attained equanimity, until your soul does not feel the honor of the one who honors you and the embarrassment of the one who insults you, your consciousness is not ready to be attached to the supernal realm, which is a prerequisite to meditation.
	www.kabbalaonline.org /Meditations/jewishmeditation/Equanimity.asp (497 words)

	Equanimity as a source of strength (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The concept of Equanimity is an important one in Buddhism.
		It is all : dreamlike with no consequences, in the buddhist model, and : what matters to the buddhist is "equanimity" - in other : words, inaction and silence in the face of injustice and : cruelty, and the suppression of passion, which is seen as : the great evil.
		Equanimity is based on the feeling of power, cowardice is based on the feeling of powerlessness.
	www.serve.com /cmtan/buddhism/equanimity.html (921 words)

	Equanimity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Equanimity, Inc. is a speakers bureau and event planning company specializing in experiential learning programs for businesses and individuals in areas of corporate culture, leadership and life balance.
		Equanimity is what we strive to help organizations and individuals achieve.
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	Equanimity - if not a poetics, then what? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Equanimity - if not a poetics, then what?
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	Immeasurable Equanimity
		Immeasurable equanimity is the first thing to meditate on in the seven-fold cause and effect instruction.
		We need to have equanimity of mind towards all sentient beings, but at present our minds do not react equally to all: we get angry at some and attached to others.
		If you gain equanimity towards enemies, dear ones, and strangers through this contemplation, you can then extend it to all sentient beings.
	www.purifymind.com /Equanimity.htm (739 words)

	Grace Healing Arts - Equanimity
		Equanimity has long been sought after by seekers of Wisdom.
		In the ancient scriptures of India, the Veda, equanimity has been held as an ideal, though the ways to achieve it have been subject to misinterpretation through the years.
		Equanimity does not mean that you will become a bland, nondescript person who can’t feel things deeply.
	gracehealingarts.com /equanimity.html (758 words)

	Dictionary.com/Word of the Day: equanimity
		For one whose mind has been notoriously troubled, Brian Lara is at least retaining a sense of equanimity.
		When one is happy, one can look at both comedy and tragedy with equanimity.
		Equanimity comes from Latin aequanimitas, "impartiality, calmness," from aequanimus, "impartial, even-tempered," from aequus, "even" + animus, "mind, soul."
	dictionary.reference.com /wordoftheday/archive/2004/06/14.html (133 words)

	Equanimity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Equanimity is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
		All religions and schools of thought have held equanimity to be a great virtue, to be cultivate d as a prerequisi te to attaining the status of a jivanmukta or realised soul.
		Equanimity: Sanskrit Hinduism Dictionary III on santham (shaantham)
	www.experiencefestival.com /equanimity (654 words)

	Equanimity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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	Equanimity - Page3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		With that, the Sadhana of equanimity develops more and more.
		It is thus necessary that every aspirant cultivates universal friend-ship with all living beings, becomes indifferent to sensual objects of the world, gives up evil thought processes, and attains equanimity by vision and contemplation of the absolute Reality.
		This is the best and the most praiseworthy attainment of a spiritual life known as equanimity.
	www.hindubooks.org /introduction/virtues/equanimity/page3.htm (162 words)

	Equanimity In Religions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Equanimity In Religions is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
		Vipassana Meditation : The practice of the sound current in Vipassana meditation, also known as the divine sound, is a foundational practice of linking directly with the soul and I AM Presence.
		Equanimity In Religions: Sanskrit Hinduism Dictionary III on santham (shaantham)
	www.experiencefestival.com /equanimity_in_religions (821 words)

	Equanimity: Definition of Equanimity in Webster's Dictionary 1913 Edition - Wunder Dictionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Equanimity: Definition of Equanimity in Webster's Dictionary 1913 Edition - Wunder Dictionary
		Equanimity: Definition of Equanimity in Webster's Dictionary 1913 Edition
		Evenness of mind; that calm temper or firmness of mind which is not easily elated or depressed; patience; calmness; composure; as, to bear misfortunes with equanimity.
	websters.wunderdictionary.com /dictionary/def/english/equanimity.html (47 words)

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