2021 Mar ONLINE One-day Equanimity Retreat with Visu Teoh
Sat, 13 Mar
|Zoom
Join us for a calm and peaceful day, developing equanimity (upekkhā), one of the four sublime abodes taught us by the Buddha. Equanimity - a state of mental equipoise and equilibrium, being unshakable and unrufflable - is a quality that we very much need as we navigate the ups and downs of life.
時間及地點 Time & Location
13 Mar 2021, 9:00 am – 5:45 pm HKT
Zoom
活動詳情 About The Event
Equanimity – the Balancer in Life and a Factor of Enlightenment
Equanimity (upekkhā) can manifest in many forms, ranging from remaining calm when provoked or under stress to deep stillness and peace experienced during meditative absorptions.
We shall explore the many facets of equanimity in our one-day retreat that is focused on comprehending and developing this important and influential mental factor.
Equanimity is one of the four divine abodes (brahmavihāra), a prominent factor in the third and fourth meditative absorption (jhāna), and one of the seven enlightenment factors (sambojjhanga).
We definitely need equanimity in our daily life, especially when facing stressful and anger triggering situations. Equanimity enables us to maintain our mental equipoise and composure. With equanimity we can respond wisely and skillfully in difficult and challenging situations.
Furthermore, when equanimity is developed to the strength of an enlightenment factor it can precipitate our attainment of the various stages of…