Equanimity Towards Experiences Brief Exercise

This brief 5-minute exercise in equanimity towards experiences — a balanced attitude equally free from grasping, aversion, and indifferent ignorance — entails cultivating the equanimous attitude of curiosity and then strengthening the foundational aspiration for wisdom and compassion.

Transcript

Finding a comfortable stationary position and releasing all types of activity and tension to connect of the qualities of stillness silence and spaciousness then directing our attention at our current experiences whatever is most prominent in our experience right now whether that's the experience of our body or a current life situation or the situation in the world or our emotional state or our mental concerns whatever it is just attending to that with clarity being aware of it and then slightly shifting our perception or whatever experience we are attending to right now by using an attitude that simply says this is what's arising this is what's coming up how curious how interesting deliberately changing our attitude into this curious attitude of this is what's coming up how interesting you this attitude of engaged interest is already much closer to true equanimity than the habitual responses of aversion grasping or indifference and so we rest in this curiosity for a few moments and then we seal this experience of equanimity with the familiar aspiration of therefore may I apply wisdom and compassion to this situation and to all the other situations this aspiration is not necessarily a part of equanimity itself but it's what we need the segue nimati for may I apply wisdom and compassion with that we briefly come back to the body we introduce some movements to the body and we conclude this simple exercise

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I will return to this often. Thank you

I discovered something very interesting in this short meditation - thank you very much.

Simple, clear, helpful- thank you 🙏

✨May I apply wisdom and compassion ✨

This little meditation is a jewel. Such important medicine! Thank you so kindly.