Quotes About Equanimity

EMBRACING SUFFERING If we let the suffering come up and just take over our mind, we can be quickly overwhelmed by it.

The good certainly cling to nothing. They do not talk aimlessly, concerned with personal gains. The wise, whether experiencing comfort or discomfort, show neither elation not depression.

In what spirit is this explanation given? Without being caught up in signs, just according to things as they are, without agitation.

Treat your anger with the utmost respect and tenderness, for it is no other than yourself.

There is no birth and death; everything dies and renews itself all the time. When you get that kind of insight, you no longer tire yourself out with anxiety and aversion.

Once we recognize that all things are impermanent, we have no problem enjoying them. In fact, real peace and joy are only possible when we see clearly into the nature of impermanence.

If you can recognize and accept your pain without running away from it, you will discover that although pain is there, joy can also be there at the same time. Some

True love is made of four elements: loving kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity.

Peace and calm are contagious.

True love is made of four elements: loving kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity. In Sanskrit, these are, maitri, karuna, mudita, and upeksha.

Our suffering is impermanent, and that is why we can transform it. And because happiness is impermanent, that is why we have to nourish it.

When a feeling or thought arises, your intention should not be to chase it away, even if by continuing to concentrate on the breath the feeling or thought passes naturally from the mind. The intention isn't to chase it away, hate it, worry about it, or be frightened by it. So what exactly should you be doing concerning such thoughts and feelings? Simply acknowledge their presence.

If we want peace, we have to be peace. Peace is a practice and not a hope.

Equanimity means to let go, not to abandon.

Relax. It's only a game.

If we focus exclusively on pursuing happiness, we may regard suffering as something to be ignored or resisted. We think of it as something that gets in the way of happiness. But the art of happiness is also and at the same time the art of knowing how to suffer well. If we know how to use our suffering, we can transform it and suffer much less. Knowing how to suffer well is essential to realizing true happiness.

Whenever a painful feeling or emotion arises, we should be able to be present with it, not fight it, but recognize it

While practicing mindfulness, don't be dominated by the distinction between good and evil, thus creating a battle within oneself.

When our mind is carried away by strong pain, it helps to go back to our relaxed and peaceful in-breath and out-breath. Eventually, when our painful feeling comes back, we accept it as it is instead of letting it carry us away and make us more agitated.

That is the Buddha's way of looking. Man is not our enemy. The things we need to transform are fanaticism, rivalry, discrimination, fear, and attachment. We transcend the ideas of clenched and open, knowing that whether clenched or open, it is still a hand. With that insight, we feel very well. We no longer hate or suffer.

la infelicidad humana se asienta fundamentalmente en tres elementos: la ignorancia, el apego y la ira.

Right Mindfulness accepts everything without judging or reacting. It is inclusive and loving.

Our feelings are formations, impermanent and without substance. We learn not to identify with ourselves with our feelings, not to consider them as a self, not to seek refuge in them, not to die because of them.

Do not sit by while others are working. Do not avoid heavy work or seek light work. Do not covet the work of others or compare your work with others. Do not take on work beyond your capacity or state of health.