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That is a damn good point. How did you pursue equanimity? Are referring to the Vipassana meditation 10-day course, and if so, how much did it contribute to you

• hosh 11y ago
  Hmmm. The word "equanimity" is a noun, so it makes it sound like it's some treasure you can possess and somehow, everything will be magically in equanimity. It's not like that because you enter a state of present moment awareness, which can start surfacing up a lot of crap. It's being OK with the crap -- being OK with being disturbed and uncertain and in anguish and in bliss and a lot of things. For me, it's more that ... things arise and passes, and whatever they are, I see them for what it is. And don't get me wrong, there's still a lot of crap I am working through. Sometimes, I feel like a sewage worker mucking out the endless sewage. Vipassana is one path to work with this. If you are familiar with it, and you have some combination of curiosity and doubt about it, I highly suggest going with it. For others, their path to this will be different. From a Taoist alchemy point of view, there is an excessive, energetic toxin directed related to existential misery. It results from our tech. I say this as a person who makes a living writing software tech. So on the side, I've been exploring that to figure out how to reduce the the anguish specifically related to excessive, toxic tech. From a Vipassana perspective, it doesn't matter if it is out of balance. It's seeing that dukkha (existential anguish) Just Is.