[Buddha-l] Prof. Guenther, may he RIP

[John Willemsens]

Google directed me as first hit to the following essay:
http://www.insightmeditationcenter.org/articles/equanimity.html
which starts off by calling equanimity 'one of the most sublime emotions of Buddhist practice'.
I tend to agree.
Rgds.
John Willemsens.

  Well, in my case I think of equanimity as the consequence of an intention-- not to discriminate, so it doesn't strike me as a mood. If one practices equanimity as non-discrimination, is emotion or feeling involved? 

  OTOH, I'm not sure that I can necessarily go along with the scholastically differentiated models of cognitive etc behavior that are described in Buddhist discourse. But that's another question I guess.
  Joanna
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    From: John Willemsens 
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    Hello,
    How does "equanimity" fit in here?
    Rgds.
    John Willemsens.
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      From: jkirk 
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      Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2006 6:15 PM
      Subject: Re: [Buddha-l] Prof. Guenther, may he RIP


      Interesting..............
      Yes, in the case of "mood", it can also be generally (since mood is a general temperamental or emotionally loaded tone ) either positive or negative. 
      Perhaps cetika could better be rendered as "general" rather than "abstract." 

      I do not think that language recognizes the possibiity of an " indifferent mood." Mood has to be either positive or negative. Indifference describes an attitude more than a mood, since there presumably is no feeling (or emotion) with indifference.
      Best,
      Joanna 



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