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Andy Barnes

Sakka-pañha Sutta: Sakka's Questions

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A wonderful look at the importance of distinguishing akusala and kusala desires and thinking but also, surprisingly, in equanimity.
How can equanimity give rise to the unwholesome? I suggest this could be when we seek equanimity and in that quest, instead, we develop detachment.....

"'Equanimity is of two sorts, I tell you: to be pursued & not to be pursued.' Thus was it said. And in reference to what was it said? When one knows of a feeling of equanimity, 'As I pursue this equanimity, unskillful mental qualities increase, and skillful mental qualities decline,' that sort of equanimity is not to be pursued. When one knows of a feeling of equanimity, 'As I pursue this equanimity, unskillful mental qualities decline, and skillful mental qualities increase,' that sort of equanimity is to be pursued. And this sort of equanimity may be accompanied by directed thought & evaluation or free of directed thought & evaluation. Of the two, the latter is the more refined. 'Equanimity is of two sorts, I tell you: to be pursued & not to be pursued.' Thus was it said.

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