Quotes About Equanimity

When we realize the everlasting truth of "everything changes" and find our composure in it, we find ourselves in Nirvana.

You must force yourself to be patient, but in constancy there is no particular effort involved--there is only the unchanging ability to accept things as they are. For people who have no idea of emptiness, this ability may appear to be patience, but patience can actually be non-acceptance.

To have a headache will be all right, because you are healthy enough to have a headache.

Just remain on your cushion without expecting anything.

A Zen master once said, "To go eastward one mile is to go westward one mile." This is vital freedom. We should acquire this kind of perfect freedom.

Zen is nothing to get excited about.

I think that is what you do. Instead of working with the problems you have, you cause yourself more problems by seeking for something else. But there is no need to seek for anything. You have plenty of problems, just enough

NIRVANA, THE WATERFALL "Our life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact, we have no fear of death anymore, nor actual difficulty in our life.

So try not to see something in particular; try not to achieve anything special. You already have everything in your own pure quality. If you understand this ultimate fact, there is no fear. There may be some difficulty, of course, but there is no fear.

In other restless positions you have no power to accept your difficulties, but in the zazen posture which you have acquired by long, hard practice, your mind and body have great power to accept things as they are, whether they are agreeable or disagreeable.

You should not be surprised at whatever you see or hear...If you are ready to accept things as they are, you will receive them as old friends.

In your practice you should accept everything as it is, giving to each thing the same respect given to a Buddha.

In the zazen posture, your mind and body have great power to accept things as they are, whether agreeable or disagreeable.

Take care of what is controllable and let go of what is uncontrollable.

I was happy without having sought happiness.

Any manwhose love of horses isstronger thanhis fear of being an absurdity is all right with me.

Live in joy and love even among those who hate; live in joy and peace even among the troubled.

To be wise was to be above joy and sorrow, fear and pity, ambition and humiliation. It was to hate nothing and to love nothing, and above all to be utterly indifferent to the love and hate of others.

Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.

I didn't really care much about anything, so I guess I felt fine.

Something way more profound and lasting than happiness is peace.

Nobody's talking to me, but nobody's hassling me either. I guess you can't have everything.

Eventually you stop paying attention to your own feelings when there's nothing to be done about them.

Yet to complain of the world's unfairness was the same as grumbling that the sun was hot or that the wind sometimes changed its direction.