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This class is the last of a five-part series. Each one of them has been recorded. You can

get them on podcasts, download them. It's a series on the different qualities of love

that we experience. We started with loving kindness, which is the quality of the heart that

gets expressed when we encounter beauty, when we encounter goodness, the mystery. The

second class was compassion and the third was forgiveness, both of which arise naturally,

a kind of tenderness when we experience the suffering that's within around us. Then

we explored joy, which is when we're open to the 10,000 joys and sorrows. When we have

that openness that really includes all that's there, there's a quality of inner freedom

that's expressed as joy. This class is on equanimity. Equanimity is the last of what

are called the bram of a harras, or the divina bodes, the resting places. Often when I begin

with equanimity, what people ask me or respond with is that this is the one that doesn't sound

so juicy or so sexy or so fun. It's like, okay, equanimity. What does that have to do

with love? If you really look closely at each of the other classes and explorations, equanimity

is the very grounds of any expression of love. It's the groundwork. Equanimity's the freedom

or balance, our openness we experience when we're mindfully present. That is what allows us

when we're not judging or resisting anything. That's what gives us this quality of openness.

It's some different flavors of love flow through. With equanimity, there's no opposing or

controlling or demanding of reality. When I was thinking about that, I got reminded of a cartoon

that's recently kind of gone viral where you have a demonstration going on in the mall, and it's

being led with a monk who has a megaphone and he's saying, what do we want? Mindfulness. When do we

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