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EQUANIMITY

or some reason, equanimity—the last of the ten paramis—has a bad reputation. I imagine it is because the word “equanimous” brings to mind the image of a cold and unmoving practitioner. Yet it’s actually about peace, not apathy. When I think of equanimity, I picture the face of the legendary bodhisattva Guanyin. With

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