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No unwholesome action, no attachment to change, be compassionate to all sentient beings, and relate to everyone with kindness, go with the flow without desires or rejection, and have no worries. ❤
_"Equanimity will lead to a boring life."_ Sure, if your "passion for living" is ego, fear, hate, revenge, anger, greed, dysfunction driven. But if you can inform your "passion for living" with something more enlightened, like love, compassion, empathy, and the Great Vow, then why should life be boring or any less replete with "passion"? Perhaps the mistake many buddhists make is to equate "equanimity" with no desire, no ambition, no goal, no objective, and no passion. Equanimity is experienced as indifference. But that shouldn't be the case at all, I think. That passion, once driven by ego, fear and greed, should be replaced with "buddhistic" passions, but no less dynamic and vibrant. The enlightened buddhist, anchored in equanimity, should be full of "passions" of a higher kind, but not just for "self", but "all" beings.
The place is called "Namo Buddha" (Newari name is Manichude) and is about 40km away from the heart of Kathmandu city. It is in Kavre District in the southeast of the valley.
When the ego centric self has collapsed 💥, no one is there anymore - what is then is - what is "this". "This" is unspeakable, ungraspable, unexplainable, unknowable or undescribable. 😊
