Knowledge of disenchantment and equanimity

When one is mindful and aware with a tranquil mind, about the true nature of feeling, there arises 
a disenchantment towards the world, towards existence. This too is a knowledge. With 
disenchantment as condition, the process of delighting and resenting begins to thin down, 
and the mind begins to get filled with equanimity. In the equanimous mind there is no 
pleasant or unpleasant feeling. There is only neutral feeling. Whilst equanimity too is of 
the nature to arise and cease, that means impermanent, the trainer should strive to 
cultivate this invaluable quality. The more one sees impermanence the more one becomes 
equanimous. He is not perturbed by the events of the world. One lives with equanimity towards 
formations and with the knowledge of that equanimity towards all formations. Anything that 
which is conditioned, which is of the nature to arise and cease, is a formation. So really, 
all are formations, there are only formations. With the development of this equanimity, 
the process of delighting and resenting begins to abate , thin down. The process of 
clinging goes down, thin down. With the tranquilization of clinging, detachment sets in. When 
this knowledge develops, detachment develops. When wisdom is complete, detachment too is 
complete.

Some mix up detachment with indifference. This is wrong. One can be compassionate and yet 
detached. Attachment is not compassion. Attachment is a defilement. Compassion is a 
wholesome quality. So too is equanimity. Detachment is the highest wholesome quality. 
There is nothing superior.Sometimes, one may come to the view that only I experience 
all this painful and unpleasant feelings and the accompanying misery. That is not so. 
It is common to all, wherever you are.

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