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PostPosted: Tue Oct 14, 2014 5:26 pm 
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The near enemy of equanimity is indifference or callousness. We may appear serene if we say, “I’m not attached. It doesn’t matter what happens anyway, because it’s all transitory.” We feel a certain peaceful relief because we withdraw from experience and from the energies of life. But indifference is based on fear. True equanimity is not a withdrawal; it is a balanced engagement with all aspects of life. It is opening to the whole of life with composure and ease of mind, accepting the beautiful and terrifying nature of all things. Equanimity embraces the loved and the unloved, the agreeable and the disagreeable, the pleasure and pain. It eliminates clinging and aversion.

Although everything is temporary and dreamlike, with equanimity we nevertheless honor the reality of form. As Zen master Dogen says, “Flowers fall with our attachment, and weeds spring up with our aversion.” Knowing that all will change and that the world of conditioned phenomena is insubstantial, with equanimity we are able to be fully present and in harmony with it.

This excerpt is taken from the book, “Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are“
From Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield: http://www.jackkornfield.com/equanimity ... ifference/

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Wow, that was beautiful. And a nice reminder to the very present urge that wants to withdraw when things get rough.

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