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, and it's a series on the different qualities

of love that we experience, and 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.

And 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.

So this class is on equanimity.

And equanimity is the last of what are called the Brahma-Vaharas, or the divine abodes,

the resting places.

Often when I begin with equanimity, what people ask me or kind of 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.

And what does that have to do with love?

And 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 is the freedom or balance, our openness we experience when we're mindfully present.

And that is what allows us when we're not judging or resisting anything.

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