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How do we understand Equanimity?

What do you mean? How do we understand and fulfil it? Patience and calmness?

Equanimity (n) The quality of being calm and even-tempered.


This is a fairly foreign concept for me, unless I am in an emergency situation.

My anger is frequently running just under a surface tension of calm ... one more drop and the whole emotional cascade begins.

I go through fits and starts of working on maintaining an even tempered base ... but the house of cards is built on shifting sands.

I guess, in short, I do not understand for it, but I strive to.

minus the word for. damn typos. I apologize

Yes indeed the calmness, motionlessness, and no-movement, controlled. Meaning dealing with Equanimity… as it has to deal with ones attitude. Equanimity is about balance. There are immense highlights but no extremes. There is no extreme anger and there is no extreme gentleness does one truly feel or is it an emptiness?
An attitude of Equanimity does not change the world. The world will always present us with extremes, and opportunities to succumb into its extremes. We cannot control much of what the world feeds us in terms of experience-so we are basically obliged to accept the input of extremes. Can we truly control how we react to the input? A way of thinking of equanimity is simply a filter through which all reactions are processed and leveled out, or equalized.
Can one truly acquire the art of Equanimity and no longer be in the helpless position to automatically react to, and take to heart, the extremes of the input that the world presents? We react evenly, with calmness, without feeling extremely grieved, without feeling extremely excite, without feeling extremely happy or angry, to I thus seems one is lost for feeling, without care of emotion whysupress what you initially and truly feel?

Just a random thought and wished to hear from others is all. I'm a dork and my mind wonders...

I do not feel that this means that one has lost all feeling, simply extreme response. I appologize if I oversimplify here, but eqanimity seems to be a matter of the appearance rather than the essence of things. If it is to be seen as a matter of essence, from a simple perspective, I see it as a state that comes about when one truly sees the futility of ones extremes-- becomes less pompous and preoccupied with ones vane inner drama. I don't know man, thats just how I see it.

yes, i do. i meditate on a regular basis. i also practice yoga. so, yes, yes i am.

yeah..i have equanimity too
=)

as an equal balance..hard to maintain at times 'tho especially under extreme conditions.

any 1 interressed in this topic?

mistake...
i wanted to tell that i'm quite equanim( i'm too bad with english).
i don't feel anger (anger leads to the dark side).sometimes i do as if not to get walked on...
i'm kindof a bouddist

Believe it or not... (now having red Req's definition of the word, rofl)...
I understood Equanimity after watching Passion of the Christ...

OUTSTANDING film.

I usually feel it after someone asks my opinion, and I give it...double barreled and sawed off.

The rest of the time it comes in the form of my children.

I feel equaminity after:
1) Good sex
2) Good meals
3) Riding the porceline Honda

Oh for the love of pete....
*sigh*
roflmao

does being unemoional most of the time count

You know if i have to much equanmity it's normaly right before all hell breaks loose,but i do have it on a normal basis especially with my life being upside down right now.....................no smirnoff and no sex make pan go crazy............................

Aww...poor Pandora....

Single parent w/ 2 kids does not = equanmity......... Would love to have it. I'm the type of person who has a hard time balancing everything in my life.

yeah that would do it,i got a 6yr old and that's enough,but nooooo now i got a 8wk old ferret(TJ) and promised my son a guiennea(SP) pig....AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Two years ago I would never have understood what equanimity even meant. I wouldn't have been able to even feel it because I was far to angry and far to emotional due to things happening in my life. But over the course of 2004 and the beginning of 2005 I have begun to find an inner peace. It has allowed me to learn how to keep my anger and feelings in a more checked balance. I think for a person to even find a balance in their "equanimity" they must first learn to control their mind. That is one thing that we can do. We are the ones who control wither we think good or bad, happy or sad thought's. If you are thinking bad thought's towards someone or something, then it throws off the balance. Same as if we allow ourselves to wallow in sadness. There is always something good to be found in just about any situation if it's thought out before hand. Therefore there can be balance, or equanimity in your being.