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**pseusawbappem** · 09-20-2011, 07:54 PM

I guess the Buddhist teachings are the best weapon against moral crises. Great human catastrophes have happened because these teachings were not respected.

Neutrality is a vague term, sometimes it is right to act, sometimes it is right to do nothing. The Swiss neutrality was an historical choice and during the war, a strategic position. For each one of us, Dharma is not an excuse for apathy nor should it be a buttress against the difficult truths of life.

Equanimity is a very easy teaching to misunderstand, I feel. It is not a state of not-feeling, some sort of an "everything is OK" state. It is when the mind is unmoving - there is not attaching to anything that happens, it is in equipoise.

In a sense everything is experienced much deeper and more intensely in this state but without a sense of being pulled along, swayed and disturbed by the happenings.

Acting from such a place is motivated very differently and carries a lot more weight.

09-20-2011, 07:54 PM	#12
pseusawbappem Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 472 Senior Member	I guess the Buddhist teachings are the best weapon against moral crises. Great human catastrophes have happened because these teachings were not respected. Neutrality is a vague term, sometimes it is right to act, sometimes it is right to do nothing. The Swiss neutrality was an historical choice and during the war, a strategic position. For each one of us, Dharma is not an excuse for apathy nor should it be a buttress against the difficult truths of life. Equanimity is a very easy teaching to misunderstand, I feel. It is not a state of not-feeling, some sort of an "everything is OK" state. It is when the mind is unmoving - there is not attaching to anything that happens, it is in equipoise. In a sense everything is experienced much deeper and more intensely in this state but without a sense of being pulled along, swayed and disturbed by the happenings. Acting from such a place is motivated very differently and carries a lot more weight.
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