Quotes About Equanimity

When you can no longer be disturbed, all disturbance will disappear from the external. "When your eyes have seen your teachers, your teachers disappear.

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.

A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

But if something did happen, it happened. Whether it's right or wrong. I accept everything that happens, and that's how I became the person I am now.

Let the world move along as it pleased. If it had any business with him, it would be sure to tell him.

To get irritated is to lose our way in life.

All you have to do is wait. Sit tight and wait for the right moment. Not try to change anything by force, just watch the drift of things. Make an effort to cast a fair eye on everything. If you do that, you just naturally know what to do. But everyone's always too busy. They're too talented, their schedules are too full. They're too interested in themselves to think about what's fair.

And any anxiety that is to not especially anxious is in the end, an anxiety hardly worth mentioning.

It's all matter of attitude. You could let a lot of things bother you if you wanted to But it's pretty much the same anywhere you go, you can manage.

Yeah, I try to be really calm.

For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross-grained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self-control.

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Whatever you find yourself thinking, let that thought rise and settle, without any constraint. Don't grasp at it, feed it, or indulge it; don't cling to it and don't try to solidify it. Neither follow thoughts nor invite them; be like the ocean looking at its own waves, or the sky gazing down on the clouds that pass through it.

Don't get too excited. In the end, it's neither good nor bad.

Try hard not to create too much hope and fear," for they only engender more mental gossip.

piece of advice from Patrul Rinpoche: Remember the example of an old cow, She's content to sleep in a barn. You have to eat, sleep, and shit— That's unavoidable— Beyond that is none of your business.

By the power and the truth of this practice: May all sentient beings enjoy happiness and the causes of happiness; May they be free from suffering and the causes of suffering; May they never be separated from the great happiness devoid of suffering, And may they dwell in the great equanimity that is free from attachment and aversion.

Rather than suppressing emotions or indulging in them, here it is important to view them, and your thoughts, and whatever arises with an acceptance and a generosity that are as open and spacious as possible.

the key to settling into a peaceful place is all about taming reaction.

expect nothing from the future

The Four Rules of Life: 1. Show Up 2. Pay Attention 3.Tell the Truth 4. Don't be upset at the results.

We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart.

If you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against.

To truly accept a thing one must have no inner tension about it.