snatched the term from Buddhist teachings in which “equanimity” is practiced as a mental stance of accepting our mental and bodily states as well as our life situations and ongoing events. As such it is linked to higher subjective and spiritual inner states and can only be achieved in a society in which the average inner state is much higher and the social logics of everyday life are governed as little as possible by the underlying negative emotions of the spectrum of judgment. Equanimity doesn’t mean that we give up discernment; we still need to evaluate the behaviors, ideas and efforts of
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