T he Equanimity link to Awakening:





Even evaluation is a characteristic of this equanimity ( Upekkhā-Sambojjhanga ).

Preventing both any deficiency, and any excess, thereby securing unbiased impartiality

is the function of equanimity. Imperturbable ballance is the serene, equipoised, and

placid manifestation of the equanimity link to awakening. Equanimity just looks on in calm,

whenever new captivating phenomena arise and cease. This stable, yet plastic patience

purifies all the other advantageous mental states, which reach a completed maximum,

when joined with this imperturbable Equanimity...





Equanimity ( Upekkhā ) is then main moderating mental construction.

Equanimity is also a mood of neither gladness, nor sadness.

Equanimity is also a feeling of neither pain, nor pleasure.

Equanimity is also the neutral ability to be indifferent.

Equanimity is also the 4th infinitely divine dwelling.

Equanimity is also a quite subtle form of happiness.

Equanimity is also a refined mental purification.

Equanimity is therefore a Link to Enlightenment...

There is Equanimity both regarding all mental states, and all physical things.

There is Equanimity both regarding all internal, and external phenomena.

There is Equanimity both regarding all past, present, and future events.

There is Equanimity both regarding pain, pleasure, and neutral feeling.

There is Equanimity both regarding joy, grief, and indifferent mood.

There is Equanimity both regarding all mentality, and all materiality.

There is Equanimity both regarding all alive beings, and dead things.

The Buddha once said:

What mental fermentations ( āsava ) should be overcome by development?

If a Bhikkhu by alert and rational attention develops the equanimity link

to awakening while dwelling in seclusion, disillusion, and ceasing, this will

culminate in full renouncing relinquishment.. Then neither can any mental

fermentation, nor can any fever of discontent ever arise in him. MN2 [i 11]