As a metaphor, the distributing or sowing of seeds has described elements of so many human enterprises. From fields as diverse as sports, religion, art, economics, politics, education and parenting, sexuality and reproduction, computer networking, psychotherapy, and ethics emerges the general notion that if favorable results of some kind are going to appear then they will likely issue from a plenitude of seeds, a multiplicity of beginnings. With more seeds cast, more is potentially—which is also to say, spontaneously—generated. Seeds represent nothing less than the genesis of things, and their natural power is change and evolution of the living. The real mystery of seeds, though, resides in never knowing in advance which ones will flourish, thereby surpassing their source. Seeding is always in prospect. It involves an ongoing act of faith, accepting its accidental power of surprise and so appreciating there always being something unintended in its progress. In the spirit of prodigality, this book is offered as a kind of seeding—across wide-ranging fields of inquiry, from multiple directions and perspectives—where ideas about equanimity as a way of seeing flexibly and generously, a way of being and thinking, may begin to settle and take root. Through teaching stories drawn from multiple traditions, and by the philosophies illuminating and constellating around them, come generative inquiries into identity (who we are), thinking (how we understand what is), ethics (how we live with others and the world), and adversity (how we deal with suffering).