Equanimity as a divine abode,
As a boundless divine abode.
So you're invited to settle into your posture,
A posture that is at ease.
And you're invited to put aside worries and concerns,
Roles and responsibilities,
And let your mind settle.
Settling into your body,
Perhaps feeling the earth beneath us,
Experiencing earth element.
Experiencing earth element in your body as you sit here,
Feeling hardness and softness,
A sense of solidity,
Heaviness or lightness.
Settling into this moment and coming to quietude,
In both physical stillness and inner stillness,
Letting the cognition slow down.
Now,
You're invited to bring to your heart,
Bring to mind,
The quality of equanimity.
Knowing that this quality is one of deep stillness and quietude,
A calm understanding,
A balanced unshakenness,
Steady and centered,
Deeply accepting the reality of the situation as it is right now.
Not in denial.
If you can,
Recognize the signs,
The signs of equanimity as you experience them right now.
It could be a felt sense.
It could be images.
Such as a stable mountain unshaken,
Or an old tree rooted in the earth,
Reaching up to the sky,
Strong.
Or could be like flexible bamboo,
Strong yet being able to flex and move with the wind.
It could have a word such as peace,
Unshaken,
Centered.
Or it could be a deep,
Felt sense of calm,
Wise centeredness,
Wise understanding that you can feel in your heart and if it's relevant for you.
You're invited to let go of the thoughts about equanimity and tune into the felt sense or the sign,
The signs of equanimity for you.
Giving them gentle attention and enriching them with your attention.
If you're a felt sense person,
Perhaps you can feel it spreading from your heart,
Touching the cells of your body,
The organs of your body,
Moving through the whole of your torso,
Into the limbs.
And or if you're a visual type,
Perhaps you can see it,
Like a glow,
A soft glow.
Calming and stilling and filling your body,
Heart,
Mind.
Or if you're an auditory type,
You can hear the word.
Peace or calm and absorb into that.
Whatever works for you,
Whatever is real for you.
Let this quality fill your being.
Touching every cell,
Every aspect of your mind.
Let yourself become absorbed into equanimity and let it absorb into you.
Undifferentiated,
Pervasive.
Let it become boundless.
Dissolving barriers or spaciousness as well as relationships.
Perhaps like a light glowing infinitely to your sides,
Behind,
In front,
Above and below,
In all directions.
A deep peacefulness,
A peacefulness of understanding.
And let it touch the hearts of whatever beings there may be.
Calming,
Soothing,
Settling,
Bringing the peace,
The peace of understanding.
