Ep. 13 - Equanimity: The Gateway to Enlightenment
Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein
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The Eight Great Vicissitudes of Life
Each one of us is touched by what the Buddha called the eight great vicissitudes of life, the eight great changes of life. We need equanimity in order to have equilibrium in the face of these changes which happen to all of us. When we go through praise and blame and gain and loss and pleasure and pain, when we go through these inevitable changes without equanimity, it's like we're crashing into the changing circumstances of our lives.
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