Quotes About Equanimity

Meditation is a tool for helping us accept the profound fact that everything changes all the time.

Here between the hither and the farther shore While time is withdrawn, consider the future And the past with an equal mind.

I lost all feeling a long time ago. Basketball is basketball. It doesn't matter what floor I'm on.

Neither object nor time off, put up with what comes.

I thought I had learned not to set my heart on anything.

The word that comes to mind is "equanimity." After meditating, I was better able to watch what happened around me without jumping into reactions.

One of the things I have always appreciated about the Buddhism I have known is the way it has urged me to circumvent my own expectations about what an "enlightened" response might be in any given situation.

When Jack was returning to America from his years in Thailand, he sought out an elderly Western monk and asked him if he had any advice about being back in the West. "Only one thing," said the monk. "When you're running to catch the subway and you see it leaving without you, don't panic, just remember, 'There's always another train.

To be honest, I'm trying to maintain a Buddhist detachment about the whole thing to stop it taking ten years off my life.

The old man did not want to waste energy, because he was beginning to warm up, to feel an oncoming sensation of strength and equanimity. If he didn't upset it, the equanimity would carry him forward in a trance.

We needed people who would give the horse the benefit of the doubt in most situations and who would think through a problem with a horse instead of just reacting to it. We wanted people who could think on their feet but who had soft hands and good hearts.

Het geluk behoort toe aan de tevredenen

And he is by no means apt to make laments about things which cannot be helped, or requests about those which are trivial; because to be thus disposed with respect to these things is consequent only upon real anxiety about them.

It is a good principle in science not to believe any 'fact'---however well attested---until it fits into some accepted frame of reference. Occasionally, of course, an observation can shatter the frame and force the construction of a new one, but that is extremely rare. Galileos and Einsteins seldom appear more than once per century, which is just as well for the equanimity of mankind.

Hay una regla que he intentado respetar toda mi vida: no pierdas nunca el sueño por problemas que no está en tu mano resolver.

He was too absurd to make me angry. Indeed, it was a waste of energy, for if you were going to be angry with this man you would be angry all the time.

Nothing is hard to do unless you get upset or excited about it.

In zazen, leave your front door and your back door open. Let thoughts come and go. Just don't serve them tea.

The mindfulness rage was just another distraction, he said. Of course we should be stressed, he said. We should be utterly consumed with dread. Mindful meditation might help a person face drowning with equanimity, but it would do absolutely nothing to right the Titanic, he said.

Knowing that I cannot escape it, I see no point in worrying about

If I behave as though this is a completely normal situation, then maybe it will be ...

What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones.

I would never point a finger at anyone and say, 'They lived their life badly.' I take it as it comes and deal with each situation as it arrives.

My mission in life is to try and get to a point where my insides world is not affected by the outside world.