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The above linked article describes limited equanimity, and I have not heard of this before, so I would like to know where in the suttas is limited equanimity described, and how would you describe it?
what is limited equanimity?
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what is limited equanimity?
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Re: what is limited equanimity?
I am certainly no expert on the suttas but I used Google Saffron and found this...
http://www.dhammawheel.com/viewtopic.ph ... t=0#p41062
Hope this helps.
*edited "Oops. I over looked the 'limited' aspect of your comment. Please disregard."
http://www.dhammawheel.com/viewtopic.ph ... t=0#p41062
Hope this helps.
*edited "Oops. I over looked the 'limited' aspect of your comment. Please disregard."
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Re: what is limited equanimity?
The descriptions of equanimity are always appreciated, but I have no idea where this concept arises from, I mean specifically limited equanimity. Any ideas what that might mean in the context of the article, and where I might find it in the suttas?
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Re: what is limited equanimity?
I suspect 'limited equanimity' is perhaps Bhante's way of differentiating the equanimity that one develops in vipassana practice, where one continuously remains aware of the rise and fall of phenomena as opposed to the equanimity one develops in samatha practice which, as with all of the brahmaviharas, becomes infinite and boundless.
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loud gush the streamlets,
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- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
Compassionate Hands Foundation (Buddhist aid in Myanmar) • Buddhist Global Relief • UNHCR
e: [email protected]..
Re: what is limited equanimity?
Thanissaro Bhikkhu is clearly referring to an equanimity that is associated with a lack of right effort ("equanimity of a cow").Wizard in the Forest wrote:http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/auth ... imits.html
The above linked article describes limited equanimity, and I have not heard of this before, so I would like to know where in the suttas is limited equanimity described, and how would you describe it?
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