Ep. 13 - Equanimity: The Gateway to Enlightenment

Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

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Joseph Goldstein, Vipassana, Insightmeditation, Religion & Spirituality, Mindfulness, Buddhism, Meditation, Society & Culture

4.8 • 864 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2015

⏱️ 56 minutes

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From one perspective it can be said that the entire spiritual path rests on the development and cultivation of a particular mind state known simply as equanimity. When highly developed, equanimity brings about an unshakable quality of mind that allows us to ride the inevitable changes of the human experience with balance and ease. We must be careful to not confuse the neutrality of equanimity with a sense of disconnection or indifference toward ourselves and others. As Joseph explains, this universal mental factor is present in every wholesome state of mind, making it difficult to overestimate its value in cultivating spacious impartiality. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:29.2	without the ads. Welcome to the Joseph Goldstein Insight Hour. This podcast is an expression of our shared interest in
0:57.4	self-discovery. Join Joseph as he shares his deep practical wisdom. Tonight I'd like to speak about one factor of mind that plays a critical role both in the happiness of our daily lives of our worldly lives
1:29.2	and also in the possibility for awakening.
1:35.8	And from one perspective, we could say that the entire spiritual path
1:39.2	rests on the development and the cultivation of this one particular mind state.
1:46.0	And that is the mental factor of equanimity.
1:51.5	So equanimity is the English translation of the poly word upeka.
1:57.0	And it refers to what in the Abidama of the Buddhist psychology is called one of the
2:05.6	universal beautiful factors of mind which means that this factor is present in every wholesome state of mind.
2:17.0	One interesting side light, you know in the categorization of in the
2:28.3	Abidama of wholesome and unwholesome mental factors. For some reason they call the unskillful mind states
2:41.2	unholdsome but they call the skillful ones beautiful. So there's not
2:47.5	that parity in terminology which I always found interesting and never have found out the reason why it's classified like that.
2:56.0	But there's something that's very engaging about that.
3:00.0	When we think about what it is that we're cultivating these beautiful states of mind.
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