Equanimity

I think this is a perfect segue, even though there's, I mean, I could just literally read the book out loud, it would be perfectly fine.

Emptying out our attachments allows us to enter a state of equanimity.

Equanimity doesn't mean we let our life events topple us.

She referenced Julia Butterfly Hill, with whom I once had a connection.

Apparently, we were told we looked alike at a certain point in our 30s, I guess, 30s and 40s.

In this episode, I am once again joined by Lee Brasington, Buddhist meditation teacher and author of Right Concentration, A Practical Guide to the Jhanas.

Lee discusses his new book, Love, Compassion, Joy, Equanimity, the Brahma Viharas.

suttas, stories, practices, and hidden gems, in which he delves into the Pali Canon of Buddhist scripture to shed new light on how to understand and practice these potent meditations.

Li gives detailed descriptions of each of the four Brahma-viharas.

It's amazing.

And this one's really cool.

It's entitled Love, Compassion, Joy, Equanimity.

The Brahma Viharas.

It's not...

Equanimity often gets interpreted somehow as a kind of cold neutrality, detached.

I don't care.

It doesn't matter.

I talk with authors about the messy, honest parts of being human and how their words can help us heal and show up better for ourselves and each other.

In today's episode, we are talking with Dr. Michael Ebel about his book, "Seeds of Equanimity: Knowing and Being." Dr.

Ebel is a psychotherapist and research affiliate at the University of Texas Austin.

He has taught literature and theory at the University of Virginia, Georgetown University, the University of Kentucky, and the University of Texas, and has published widely on cultural and intellectual history and on mental health practice.

There's a quality of unshakableness, imperturbability.

Equanimity, though, also includes this quality of even-mindedness.

So there's a quality of mind or an attitude of mind that is part of this jhana quality and attitude.

an attitude of the mind, even-mindedness, even-temperedness.

Tom Brady has the ability to slow things down under duress and pressure.

I have another chapter called Equanimity, One More Level of Equanimity.

The athletes that get rattled, things speed up.

I watched Michael Chandler fight this weekend, and Michael's been in some really intense fights a couple times.

Great mind.

Equanimity of mind.

Take a moment and close your eyes.

What are you giving your attention to? Are they positive thoughts or are they negative thoughts? Can you consciously choose Robaishin, equanimity of mind, grandmother mind? Remember, compassion is revolution.

Suddenly, you notice sounds you didn't know were there.

Calm doesn't reduce information, it reveals it.

And deep in your abdomen, your mesenteric nerve plexus detects chemical and mechanical changes milliseconds after they occur.

These shifts, often interpreted as gut feelings, are actually highly coordinated neural events.

Right now, in this slow, steady calm, your ability to sense resonance becomes even sharper.

Stress makes the body defensive.

Calm makes it perceptive.

In this softness, you can feel the difference between tension and ease, between sincerity and pretense, between alignment and dissonance.

Just as all the rivers and streams of the world pour into the ocean, but the ocean doesn't overflow its bounds, so the world of sense pours into the yogi and leaves him as it found him, serene, content, at peace.

Equanimity is yoga." So when you're not resisting, when you're not manipulating, when you're not needing to be a certain way, it's fine how it is.

I'm just the experiencer of the divine creation every moment.

It's not that I'm not doing anything.

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An imminent provincial musical tour, common current expenses, net proceeds divided.

Equanimity.

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