You'll never be transformed enough to never be on it ever
again. Sorry. And if you've ever wished you could be
transformed enough to never be on it ever again, it really indicates
being unclear on the concept of transformation.
You're a stimulus /
response reaction machine.
You'll react forever. You'll be getting stuck ie you'll get on it over
and over and over again ... just as surely as you'll get off
it over and over and over again.
Perhaps as you master transformation, perhaps as you get your hands and
feet familiar with the levers, dials, and pedals of transformation,
you'll commit to the time between you noticing you're on it, and you
inventing a new possibility for yourself and for your life (in other
words, the time it takes for you to get off it) becoming shorter and
shorter and shorter. Perhaps as you master transformation, you'll get
off it faster and faster and faster whenever you notice you're on it
again.
The possibility of getting off it in the fastest possible time once you
notice you're on it again is the possibility of being
equanimitous.
This is a possibility I invented for myself and my life: the
possibility of being equanimitous. Then, after I'd invented being
equanimitous as a possibility for myself and for my life, I then
discovered this: officially there's nosuchword in the English language as "equanimitous". Really. There
isn't. There should be. But there isn't. Look it up.
You'll see.
There is, however, such a word as "equanimity" which is where I got the
idea from.
Definition
equanimity
noun
calmness and self-control, especially after a shock or
disappointment or in a difficult situation
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If you generate calmness and self-control, especially after a shock or
disappointment or in a difficult situation, you'll get off it faster
than if you don't generate equanimity or if you don't have equanimity.
So, given this conversation's possibility of generating equanimity or
of having equanimity invented as "the possibility of being
equanimitous", I've made up the word "equanimitous" as the
adjectival form of the noun "equanimity", and I've added it to
The Laurence Platt Dictionary:
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Definition
equanimitous
from the noun
equanimity
adjective
being calm and self-controlled, especially after a shock or
disappointment or in a difficult situation
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Many qualities of the so-called enlightened state have
been touted: compassion, generosity, humility, kindness,
presence of Self,
spirituality, wisdom etc. It occurs to me it's quite likely none of
the above are arguably as indicative of the so-called
enlightened state as the possibility of being equanimitous ie as the
possibility of being calm and completely relaxed.
