Seeds of Equanimous Knowing
摘要
This chapter expands our view of equanimity by describing more dimensions of it as a distinctive way of knowing. Equanimity, to this point, may be described as a dynamic and holistic way of seeing—knowing—the world. The equanimous mind, never rigidly schizoid (from the ancient Greek σχίζω, “to split”), always moves across and over dualisms. Through a flexible experience of the whole phenomenal field, connections between multiple objects of attention may be apprehended with a directness and freshness that more habitual modes of knowing tend to fracture or ignore. When binary and linear ways of thinking customarily split and channel our experience of the world, we forfeit something of the wholeness that is the essential nature of what can be seen. If naturally by looking over things, we come to understand that we are nothing other than one of the world’s ways of revealing itself to itself, then there is also before us the opportunity to grasp how the world in a sense wants to reveal itself. Equanimity is the capacity for, the art of, receiving and making sense of more of the world’s unremitting disclosure.