Equanimity is not meant to
build a spiritual ivory tower,
insulated from all the cares and woes of living.
Equanimity does not mean indifference.
With equanimity, we actually increases
our compassion and enables our care to
penetrate below the surface of life.
We work hard to achieve our goals,
fulfilling our responsibilities for service,
thus equanimity provides a safe harbor,
the security of inner peace,
the calm in the center of the storm.
Facing or avoiding difficult situations,
equanimity enables us to meet life steady.
This inner peace and evenness of spirit
lets us bring our best to life without
retreating or succumbing to inner turmoil
as a reflection of the outer chaos.
To work toward equanimity,
we let go of attachments. We distinguish
the normalcy of caring and loving from
the slavery of being bound and chained
by identification and clinging.
We prefer not to be dragged
into the world of reactions.
Unwelcome events do send ripples
across the calm ocean of equanimity,
ripples informing us of the need to respond.
But it is precisely the quality of
equanimity that helps us respond
effectively instead of reactively.
Equanimity opens us to the timeless, the deathless.
Indeed, equanimity develops through our contact with
that part of our soul that resides in the timeless.
This peace from the worlds beyond time, embraces the world in time.
But it is so much easier said than done...
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