The Second Treatise on the Perfections – 2870
3. Equanimity as a factor of Awakening (
Bojjhaṅgupekkhā
).
4. Equanimity of effort (
viriyupekkhā
).
5. Equanimity regarding formations (
saṅkhārupekkhā
).
6. Equanimity regarding feelings (
vedanupekkhā
).
7. Equanimity resulting from insight (
vipassanupekkhā
).
8. Equanimity as specific neutrality (
tatra-majjhattupekkhā
).
9. Equanimity resulting from the third absorption (
jhānupekkhā
).
10. Equanimity from the purity of the fourth absorption
(
pārisuddhupekkhā
).
1. There are six sense objects, good and bad, that appear at the six sense spheres.
Arahats are not delighted when the sense objects are desirable and not dejected
when these are undesirable. Always being endowed with mindfulness and
comprehension, they take them in with equanimity, maintaining their natural
purity of mind. This kind of mental equipoise is called equanimity with six
factors (
chaḷaṅgupekkhā
). That is, equanimity with six factors: the six sense
spheres and six-objects.
2. Equanimity which views that happiness and suffering of beings occur
according to their deeds is equanimity as sublime living (
Brahma-vihārupekkhā
).
The perfection of equanimity is this kind of equanimity.
3. When efforts are made to attain the path and the fruition, if some factors are
weak and other strong, the weaker ones are to be strengthened and the stronger
are to be suppressed, but when these factors of the path reach the status of
factors of Awakening (
Bojjhaṅga
), their associated factors are of equal strength.
Equanimity observed equally on these elements is called equanimity as a factor
of Awakening (
Bojjhaṅgupekkhā
).
4. In making efforts to attain the paths and fruitions, energy extended for just
the required amount, neither too much nor too little, is equanimity of effort
(
viriyupekkhā
).
5. In making efforts for the attainment of concentration, path and fruition states,
remaining detached from conditioned things (
saṅkhāra-dhamma
), such as the
hindrances (
nivaraṇa
) that are to be eradicated by means of the first absorption
(
jhāna
) is called equanimity regarding formations (
saṅkhārupekkhā
). This