PHIL-201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Ataraxia, List Of Civilisations In The Culture Series, Virago
14 Dec 2017
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Equanimity: emphasized in a number of indian texts: samatuam. It is the ability to maintain a tranquility of calm throughout circumstances. They are not indifferent to pleasure and pain but does not attach a sense of ego to pleasure and pain. No sense of i embedded in the experience of pleasure and pain. May prefer fortune over misfortune,but don"t mourn the impact of misfortune on ego. The experience of atman requires equanimity: the person who achieves atman must maintain equanimity . Achieving the true self, the atman as an impersonal self requires an overcoming of the ego self and attachments. The less one is attached to ego, the greater the equanimity: one who egoistic will be highly invested in their pleasure and pain and mourn and celebrate the ego for its gains and losses. Cravings as a review, attach a self to the desire.
