The Practice Which leads to Nibbana - A Buddhist Library

Equanimity Meditation (UpekkhŒ BhŒvanŒ)To develop equanimity meditation you should firstly developthe white kasina to the fourth jhŒna and then select a neutral personof the same sex, who is alive and develop lovingkindness, compassion,and sympathetic joy each up to the third jhŒna towards thatperson. Then having arisen from the third jhŒna you should reflecton the disadvantages of the three brahmaviharas being their closenessto affection, like and dislike, elation and joy. Then you shouldreflect on the fourth jhŒna based on equanimity as peaceful. Thentaking a normally neutral person as an object you should developequanimity towards him by thinking:This being is the heir to his own actions.Because of the assistance of the third jhŒna of lovingkindness,compassion, and sympathetic joy you should not take long to developthe fourth jhŒna of equanimity based on that neutral person.Then after that you can develop the fourth jhŒna of equanimity towardsa person you like, then a person you like a lot, then an enemy.Then you should develop the fourth jhŒna of equanimity again andagain to oneself, a person you like, a neutral person and an enemyuntil you have removed the distinctions between individuals andthen taking all beings in the boundless universe as an object developequanimity in 132 ways, consisting of: five unspecified pervasions,seven specified pervasions, and one hundred and twenty directionalpervasions. [5 + 7 +(10 directions x12 = 120) = 132]w 99