Practices for Uncommon Equanimity from Deepest View

We are going through the stages of meditation, leading up to the development of bodhichitta. We have gone through the process for developing mere equanimity, and we’re working through the nine stages for developing the uncommon Mahayana type of equanimity. The first type of equanimity was the mere equanimity with which we are free of attachment, repulsion, or indifference toward others, and that’s developed in common with Hinayana. What we’re working on now is the Mahayana form, which in addition to the mere equanimity, is free of the attitude of being close to some or far from others when we’re actually going to help them. We’ve already worked through six of the nine points, which are explained from the relative point of view (three from the self and three from others’ point of view), and now we are up to the three points from the deepest point of view.

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