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In the ''[[Khenjuk]]'', [[Mipham Rinpoche]] says:
In the ''[[Khenjuk]]'', [[Mipham Rinpoche]] says:
*Tib. བཏང་སྙོམས་ནི་ཆགས་སྡང་གཏི་མུག་མེད་པར་སེམས་རྣལ་དུ་གནས་པ་སྟེ། ཉོན་མོངས་པའི་སྐབས་མི་འབྱེད་པའི་ལས་ཅན་ནོ།
*Tib. བཏང་སྙོམས་ནི་ཆགས་སྡང་གཏི་མུག་མེད་པར་སེམས་རྣལ་དུ་གནས་པ་སྟེ། ཉོན་མོངས་པའི་སྐབས་མི་འབྱེད་པའི་ལས་ཅན་ནོ།
*Equanimity is the mind resting naturally, free from [[attachment]], [[anger]] and [[delusion]]. Its function is to avoid giving occasion for the [[destructive emotion]]s to arise.([[Rigpa Translations]])
*Equanimity is the mind resting naturally, free from [[attachment]], [[anger]] and [[delusion]]. Its function is to avoid giving occasion for the [[destructive emotions]] to arise. ([[Rigpa Translations]])
*Equanimity is the mind resting naturally, free from attachment, anger and delusion. Its function is to avoid giving occasion for the disturbing emotions [to occur in one's stream-of-being].([[Erik Pema Kunsang]])
*Equanimity is the mind resting naturally, free from attachment, anger and delusion. Its function is to avoid giving occasion for the disturbing emotions [to occur in one's stream-of-being]. ([[Erik Pema Kunsang]])


==Alternative Translations==
==Alternative Translations==

Revision as of 17:50, 22 June 2016

Equanimity (Skt. upekṣā; Tib. བཏང་སྙོམས་, Wyl. btang snyoms, tang nyom) — one of the fifty-one mental states defined in Abhidharma literature. According to the Compendium of Abhidharma, it belongs to the subgroup of the eleven virtuous states. It is also one of the four immeasurables, and in meditation practice, it is the eighth antidote, which is the antidote to the fifth fault of (over-application). For the later, see the five faults and eight antidotes.

Definitions

In the Khenjuk, Mipham Rinpoche says:

  • Tib. བཏང་སྙོམས་ནི་ཆགས་སྡང་གཏི་མུག་མེད་པར་སེམས་རྣལ་དུ་གནས་པ་སྟེ། ཉོན་མོངས་པའི་སྐབས་མི་འབྱེད་པའི་ལས་ཅན་ནོ།
  • Equanimity is the mind resting naturally, free from attachment, anger and delusion. Its function is to avoid giving occasion for the destructive emotions to arise. (Rigpa Translations)
  • Equanimity is the mind resting naturally, free from attachment, anger and delusion. Its function is to avoid giving occasion for the disturbing emotions [to occur in one's stream-of-being]. (Erik Pema Kunsang)

Alternative Translations

Evenness (Padmakara Translation Group)