Mini Mindfulness Break for May 16, 2021

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Become familiar with what equanimity feels like internally. Start with something simple, like a slight pain in your knee when you are sitting in meditation, and simply be aware of it as a sensation rather than as something to resist, resent, or wish away. Do the same with any slightly pleasant sensation, such as in parts of your body that feel comfortable when you sit. Learn to simply observe these sensations as phenomena, with equanimity.

– Andrew Olendzki, Dharma Wheel – Tricycle

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When pleasure is encountered in ordinary life it is usually accompanied by desire and craving. When we practice mindfulness with pleasant feeling tones as an object, the goal is to experience the sensations with equanimity rather than with preference and attachment. It is natural to experience pleasure; the danger comes only when we allow it to carry us away into unhealthier mental and emotional states.

– Andrew Olendzki, Dharma Wheel – Tricycle

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How to Practice Sympathetic Joy

In the Buddha’s teachings, sympathetic joy or being happy for another’s happiness (Pali: mudita) is one of the four brahmaviharas, the four highest qualities of the heart. In recent years, the other three–loving-kindness, compassion, and equanimity–have received quite a lot of attention from practitioners, researchers, and the press alike. But sympathetic joy has gotten little attention. How can that be? Shouldn’t joy be the most appealing of the heart qualities? Not necessarily. Traditionally it is often referred to as the most difficult of the four. Sympathetic joy is complicated.

– Christiane Wolf, Lion’s Roar

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Mini Mindfulness Break for November 09, 2020

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Equanimity manifests as the absence of the two extremes of attraction (greed) and aversion (hatred), which so often rule the mind. Equanimity is the still center point on a continuum between the two, where the mind neither draws toward nor tilts away from an object.

– Andrew Olendzki, Dharma Wheel – Tricycle

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Mini Mindfulness Break for October 29, 2020

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Equanimity is the last of the seven factors of awakening and completes the preceding series of mindfulness, investigation of states, energy, joy, tranquility, and concentration. Equanimity is the culmination of skillful states of mind because it neutralizes craving, occupying the midpoint between its two forms, greed and hatred. Equanimity is in the middle where one gazes upon what is happening without entanglement.

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Mini Mindfulness Break for August 16, 2020

Accepting What Is

A deeper equanimity comes when we learn how to be with our life as it is, not as we would like it to be.

– Eliot Fintushel, “Something to Offer “

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Mini Mindfulness Break for April 03, 2020

Equanimity

Equanimity has the capacity to embrace extremes without getting thrown off balance. Equanimity takes interest in whatever is occurring simply because it is occurring. Equanimity does not include indifference, boredom, coldness, or hesitation. It is an expression of calm, radiant balance that takes whatever comes in stride.

– Shaila Catherine, “Equanimity in Every Bite “

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Mini Mindfulness Break for December 19, 2019

Goals

Gratitude, loving kindness and forgiveness are the true foundations for a life of love and happiness. As you will see in a later chapter, these contribute vastly to inner peace, tranquility and equanimity. These qualities purify your heart and mind and promote beneficial hormones in your brain. These are some things to strive for and meditate upon on a daily basis. When gratitude, loving kindness and forgiveness are in place, it is much, much easier to accomplish your goals, whatever they might be.

– Jerome Freedman, Mindfulness Breaks: Your Path to Awakening

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Mini Mindfulness Break for May 02, 2019

A New Year’s Resolution

I intend to cultivate equanimity and balance–not to panic when things appear to be off track, and not to relax when everything seems to be going smoothly. I intend to cultivate awareness and presence and not focus too hard on the outcome–paying more attention to the process and developing understanding and sympathy for myself and others.

– David Nichtern, “A New Year’s Resolution to Consider “

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Mini Mindfulness Break for December 25, 2018

Equanimity is a spacious,
vast, and even state of mind;
it does not take sides.
It’s not about being untouched by the world,
but letting go of fixed ideas.
How else are we to develop compassion and loving-kindness
for everyone and everything? Equanimity levels the playing field –
we are not excluding anyone from our practice.

– Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche

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