Guest guest Posted August 25, 2006 Report Share Posted August 25, 2006 Friends: What is the Equanimity Link to Awakening? Even evaluation is characteristic of the Equanimity Link to Awakening. (Upekkhā-Sambojjhanga). Preventing both deficiency & excess andsecuring impartiality is the function of Equanimity. Imperturbable ballance is the manifestation of the Equanimity Link to Awakening. Equanimity just looks on whenever new phenomena arises and ceases. This stable yet plastic patience purifies all the other advantageous mental states, which reach maximum, when joined with Equanimity...Equanimity (Upekkhā) is a moderating mental construction.Equanimity is also a mood of neither gladness nor sadness.Equanimity is also a feeling of neither pain nor pleasure.Equanimity is also the neutral ability to be indifferent.Equanimity is also the 4th infinitely divine dwelling.Equanimity is also a quite high form of happiness.Equanimity is also a refined mental purification.Equanimity is therefore a Link to Enlightenment... There is Equanimity both regarding live beings and dead things.There is Equanimity both regarding all internal & external states.There is Equanimity both regarding all past, present and future.There is Equanimity both regarding all mentality & all materiality.The Buddha once said: What mental fermentations (āsava) should be overcome by development? If a Bhikkhu by alert & rational attentiondevelops the Equanimity Link to Awakening based on seclusion, based on disillusion, on ceasing, culminating in full renouncing relinquishment, then neither can mental fermentation, nor any fever, nor discontent ever arise in him. MN2 [i 11]When mind is concentrated one can observe all closely in equanimity. The Equanimity Link to Awakening arises right there. He develops it, and for him repeatedly meditating it goes gradually to the completionof its development. MN118 [iii 85] Further inspirations on the imperturbable quality of Equanimity:Feeding Equanimity http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Feeding_Equanimity.htmEven is Equanimity http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Even_is_Equanimity.htm PS: Please include the word Samahita in any comment, since then will my automatic mail filters pick it up and I will see it & respond!! Bhikkhu Samahita, Ceylon. Friendship is the Greatest ... Let there be Calm & Free Bliss !!! http://What-Buddha-Said.net Buddha-Direct What_Buddha_Said Dhamma-Questions sent to my email are quite Welcome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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