| | From a more insight-oriented point of view:
Low Equanimity can be known by the following:
1) one is in Re-observation, and it suddenly breaks and one is suddenly okay again. Some pain may be there, some irritation, but the weight is lifted, and when one sits on the cushion or applies mindfulness to objects, there is not the restlessness and irritation of that previous stage.
2) Attention suddenly widens in a way it didn't before, thoughts, which typically one has been re-caught in during Re-observation, suddenly split off again and seem far less important and sticky than they were before.
3) Low Equanimity may be followed by a real sense of freedom, of coming home, of naturalness, of okayness, and a wonder at all this, like a freshness from childhood. This increases as one moves from 11.1 to 11.2 to use ñana.subjhana terminology.
4) Low Equanimity may not be that noticeable for some, as the drama and tension and restlessness of Re-observation tends to demand attention, however skewed, but Low Equanimity can feel so normal after it that some will not really notice it as a distinct stage unless they are inclined to that sort of mapping and analysis.
5) Indifference, the deadening impostor and near-enemy of Equanimity, is flat, lifeless, dull, whereas Equanimity is open, workable, broad, and feels very natural and easy in comparison.
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Daniel |