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equanimity anyway beeing attacked?

Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2013 4:30 pm
by villkorkarma
thus one have reached equanimity can that person be fysical attacked?

Re: equanimity anyway beeing attacked?

Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2013 5:18 pm
by Polar Bear
An equanimous person may indeed be attacked. Even some arahants (Angulimala and Moggallana) got beat up back in the Buddha's day due to the ripening of bad kamma.

Re: equanimity anyway beeing attacked?

Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2013 5:40 pm
by Cittasanto
villkorkarma wrote:thus one have reached equanimity can that person be fysical attacked?
if you are equanimous you are equanimous. you can still be assaulted, they don't negate each other.

Re: equanimity anyway beeing attacked?

Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2013 9:36 pm
by manas
villkorkarma wrote:thus one have reached equanimity can that person be fysical attacked?
I think you are referring to this very advanced meditative state which renders one immune from physical attack, is that it? I can recall reading about it once, but I don't remember which one it was. In any case one was only safe while sitting in that state I think, but not while walking around during the day, etc. (if memory serves me correctly). It was only temporary physical protection.

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