What is the Equanimity link to Awakening?
Even evaluation
is a characteristic of the
equanimity link to awakening.
(Upekkhā-Sambojjhanga). Preventing both deficiency
and excess thereby
securing
impartiality is the function of
equanimity. Imperturbable
ballance
is the serene and placid manifestation
of the equanimity link to awakening.
Equanimity
just looks on
in calm,
whenever new phenomena arise and cease.
This stable,
yet plastic patience purifies all the other
advantageous
mental
states, which reach a completed 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, and external phenomena.
There is
Equanimity both regarding all past, present, and future states.
There is Equanimity both regarding all mentality, and all materiality.
The Buddha once said:
What
mental
fermentations (āsava) should be
overcome by development?
If a Bhikkhu by alert and
rational attention
develops the equanimity link
to awakening
based on seclusion,
disillusion, and ceasing, culminating in full
renouncing relinquishment,
then neither can any mental fermentation, nor
can any fever, or discontent
ever arise in him. MN2 [i 11]
When mind is concentrated, then one
can observe all from aloof equanimity.
The
equanimity link to
awakening arises right there. One develops
it, & for
anyone regularly meditating, equanimity gradually completes its evolution.
MN118 [iii 85]
Further inspirations on the imperturbable
quality
of Equanimity
(Upekkhā):
Even is
Equanimity,
The 7
Links to Awakening,
Serene Equanimity and Beyond,
Imperturbable Equanimity,
Unshakable Equanimity,
Equanimity Upekkha,
Feeding
Equanimity,
Empty
Equanimity,
High_and_Alert,
What_is_Wrong,
Safe_Medicine,
Serene_Equanimity,
Divorced_Freedom,
Tatra-Majjhattat,
Exquisite_Equanimity.
