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<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Equanimity?
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<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>“The
real meaning of <i>upekkha</i> is equanimity, not indifference in the sense of
unconcern for others. As a spiritual virtue, <i>upekkha</i> means equanimity in
the face of the fluctuations of worldly fortune. It is evenness of mind,
unshakeable freedom of mind, a state of inner equipoise that cannot be upset by
gain and loss, honour and dishonour, praise and blame, pleasure and pain.<i>
Upekkha</i> is freedom from all points of self-reference; it is indifference
only to the demands of the ego-self with its craving for pleasure and position,
not to the well-being of one's fellow human beings. True equanimity is the
pinnacle of the four social attitudes that the Buddhist texts call the 'divine
abodes': boundless loving-kindness, compassion, altruistic joy, and equanimity.
The last does not override and negate the preceding three, but perfects and
consummates them.” <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upekkha">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upekkha</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>"Mindfulness
is the basis of Equanimity. The development of Equanimity comes in the full
experience of the "cascading tidal waves" of feelings, not its
suppression. Only when one is fully able to experience oneself does one start
to develop Equanimity. If one suppresses one's feelings, Equanimity does not
arise. What arises is the lack of feelings mistaken as equanimity." <a
href="http://www.serve.com/cmtan/buddhism/equanimity.html">www.serve.com/cmtan/buddhism/equanimity.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Robyn<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Fremantle<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Western
Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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