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Meditator explores profound equanimity, challenging traditional views of well-being

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The author describes a profound experience of equanimity during a ten-day meditation retreat, which challenged their previous understanding of emotional states. This deep sense of inner stillness and acceptance, even in the face of imagined tragedies, offered a different perspective on well-being than traditional hedonistic or even tranquilist frameworks. The experience suggested that certain states of being are valuable not for their positivity on a pleasure-pain scale, but for their inherent quality and the altered relationship they foster with the world. AI

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  1. LessWrong (AI tag) TIER_1 English(EN) · nonplus ·

    Notes on equanimity from the inside

    <p><span>I've always thought of myself as even-keeled and equanimous; that my mind is still. In hindsight, I had no idea what I was talking about. Halfway through my second ten-day meditation retreat, I experienced a depth of equanimity that broke my existing frame of reference.<…

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