In learning to experience deep peace in the face of impermanence, we need to consider not just our inner experience,…
I've been explaining how the practice of upekkha bhavana isn't really about equanimity, and how upekkha itself isn't really equanimity,…
I started this 100 Days of Lovingkindness just after our new year drive to get people meditating regularly -- our…
Upekkha involves closely (upa) watching (īkś) ourselves in order to develop insight, and the calm that follows from insight, and…
I've always suspected that the Buddha had a hard time expressing himself, not because of any lack of ability of…
One of the things I love is that when you spend some time hanging out with a practice, you often…
So far in this 100 Days of Lovingkindness I haven't said anything about the phrases we use in cultivating equanimity…
Sometimes I find it hard to write about equanimity. It's hard to make an absence of reactivity sound interesting. There's…
The traditional term "near enemy" points to some spiritually unhelpful quality or experience that can be mistaken for a helpful…
Buddhaghosa decribes the "far enemies" of equanimous love like this: "Greed and resentment ... are its far enemies ... for…