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Equanimity

Upekkha — the fourth immeasurable. Not indifference but the balance the heart finds at the end of the path.

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Antique manuscript painting of the Buddha calming the ferocious elephant Nalagiri through loving-kindness, from the Wellcome Collection

Concepts

The Four Immeasurables

Four boundless qualities of heart — loving-kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity — cultivated as meditations and lived as the everyday architecture of relation.

Close-up of the inscribed rock face of Ashoka's edicts at Dhauli — an immense, unmoving stone, echoing the essay's simile of the mind unshaken by praise or blame

Concepts

The Eight Worldly Concerns

Four pairs of opposites that drive the unawakened life — gain and loss, pleasure and pain, praise and blame, fame and disrepute. To be moved by them is to be moved by the wind of the world.

Teachings

Ven. Kondanya Mahathero

A Discourse at Buddha Vihara, Bhrikutimandap

A Dharma Desana by the senior Theravada teacher of the Kathmandu Valley, given at Buddha Vihara, Bhrikutimandap. The slow, careful exposition of the householder's path.

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