The Perfection of Equanimity
The Commentary to the “Basket of Conduct” defines the perfection of equanimity, upekkha, as follows:
“Equanimity has the characteristic of promoting the aspect of neutrality;
its function is to see things impartially;
its manifestation is the subsiding of attraction and repulsion;
reflection upon the fact that all beings inherit the results of their own kamma is its proximate cause.”
Topic 286
24 Dec 2014
Contents
- Citta unaffected by attachment and aversion
- All perfections support and enhance each other
- Perfections and their opposed defilements I
- Perfections and their opposed defilements II
- Perfections and their opposed defilements III
- A thousand goods & a cotton thread
- The wise Lomahamsa I
- The wise Lomahamsa II
- The wise Lomahamsa III
- The wise Lomahamsa IV
- We need all perfections