自在聆听|晨读原著：T39: The Practice of Equanimity-Comfortable with Uncertainty

39 The Practice of Equanimity BY PRACTICING LOVING-KINDNESS, compassion, and rejoicing, we are training in thinking bigger, in opening up as wholeheartedly as we can. We are cultivating the unbiased state of equanimity. Without this fourth boundless quality the other three are limited by our habit of liking and disliking, accepting and rejecting. Training in equanimity is learning to open the door to all, welcoming all beings, inviting life to come visit. Of course, as certain guests arrive, we’ll feel fear and aversion. We allow ourselves to open the door just a crack if that’s all that we can presently do and we allow ourselves to shut the door when necessary. Cultivating equanimity is a work in progress. We aspire to spend our lives training in the loving-kindness and courage that it takes to receive whatever appears—sickness, health, poverty, wealth, sorrow, and joy. We welcome and get to know them all. Equanimity is bigger than our usual limited perspective. It’s the vast mind that doesn’t narrow reality into for-or-against, liking-or-disliking. Touching in with the place where we feel equanimity, we can then formally train in cultivating it by practicing the three-step practice:“May I dwell in the great equanimity free from passion, aggression, and prejudice. May you dwell in the great equanimity free from passion, aggression, and prejudice. May all beings enjoy the great equanimity free from passion, aggression, and prejudice.” It is always fine to use your own words. The aspiring practice of equanimity can also be expanded into seven stages (see teaching 35). Do some sitting meditation before and after this practice.