So again, you, you're still motivated to achieve and do your very best. Like for instance, we teach this to athletes, top level athletes. They have to be at the best of that game, but if they miss a shot or they, you know, they blow game with, they just...
bad and the ugly — and work to not react to them — not waiting for the negative experience, pain and difficulties to end and not hoping that the positive experience, bliss, and pleasant sensations will continue. Just observing. And that is how you develop equanimity. ...
wavelengths in the visible spectrum combine to produce “transparent” light, so all of life’s vicissitudes blend into one vast “nothingness”, or空(kōng empty, emptiness). Only when one comes upon this realization can one hope to go through life’s journey in peace and with equanimity. ...
This information indicated extremely high levels of equanimity, well-being, and resilience to negativity, all of which could be traced back to his discipline of mindfulness. 13. Mindfulness slows down the progression of neurodegenerative diseases. Researchers have foundthat positive brain changes that a...
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You have an emotion goal; in this case, a level of happiness you want to achieve. You compare your goal to how you’re feeling. If you’re not meeting your goal–i.e., you’re not happy enough–then you try to change it via some kind ofemotion regulation(e.g., watch an ...
The message: good relationships don’t have to be symmetrical, one can be happy in situations where the two partners are very different and yet have manage to achieve calm and stability. So long, of course, as there is reciprocal growth through virtue. My personal experience: I have had tw...
without preconceived notions and judgment. Live as if today matters and live your life fully. When you stay in the present you will relax and experience equanimity. You will also be able to think and act when you are confronted with situations which usually give rise to emotional disturbances....
Healthiest Eights: Become self-restrained and magnanimous, merciful and forbearing, mastering self through their self-surrender to a higher authority. Courageous, willing to put self in serious jeopardy to achieve their vision and have a lasting influence. May achieve true heroism and historical great...
And with the fading away of rapture, they enter and remain in the third absorption, where they meditate with equanimity, mindful and aware, personally experiencing the bliss of which the noble ones declare, ‘Equanimous and mindful, one meditates in bliss.’ Giving up pleasure and pain, and ...