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# Upekkhā

#### Objective Detachment, Equanimity

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The Seventh Lesson
The Eighth Lesson
The 10th Lesson
[MN 118]
ATI: Mindfulness of Breathing Bhk. Thanissaro, trans.,
BD: The Inspiring Expiring Mind, Olds, trans.
WP: The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha: #118: Mindfulness of Breathing, Bhikkhu Nanamoli/Bhikkhu Bodhi, trans., 941
PTS: The Middle Length Sayings: #118: Discourse on Mindfulness when Breathing In and Out, Horner, trans., III.121
[SN 5.54.1]
BD: The Respiration Collection
[AN 4.14]
PTS: The Book of the Gradual Sayings II: The Book of the Fours, II: Deportment iv: Restraint, Woodward, trans, pp16
Wings to Awakening
Puremind Publishers, Bhante Madawela Punnaji, Awakening Meditation, pp4-7
The Four Godly Thoughts
Godly Thoughts Expansions
[MN 7]
WP: The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha, #7: The Simile of the Cloth, Bhikkhu Nanamoli and Bhikkhu Bodhi trans., pp120
ATI: The Simile of the Cloth, Thanissaro, trans.
PTS: Middle Length Sayings, I:#7: Simile of the Cloth, Horner, trans., pp48
DhammaTalk: Equanimity

Pāḷi | MO | Hare | Horner | Punnaji | Bodhi | Nanamoli | Rhys Davids | (Mrs)Rhys Davids | Thanissaro | Walshe | Woodward
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Upekkhā | Objective Detachment | Equanimity, Poise [AN 5.144] | equanimity | introspection | equanimity | equanimity | equanimity |  | Equanimity | equanimity | equanimity, indifference [SN 4.36.29]

Pāḷi Text Society
Pāḷi English Dictionary
Edited by T. W. Rhys Davids and William Stede
[EDITED ENTRY]

Upekkhā and Upekhā: (f.)[fr. upa + īk.s, cp. Bsk. upek.sā] "looking on", hedonic neutrality or indifference, zero point between joy and sorrow, disinterestedness, neutral feeling, equanimity. Sometimes equivalent to adukkham-asukha-vedana "feeling which is neither pain nor pleasure". D 138 (-sati-parisuddhi purity of mindfulness which comes of disinterestedness cp. Vin III.4; M I.79, 364; III 219; S iv.71, 114 sq., v.209 sq (-indriya); A I 42; 81 (-sukha), 256 (-nimitta); III.185, 291 (-cetovimutti); iv.47 sq., 70 sq., 300, 443; v. 301, 360; Sn 67, 73, 972, 1107, (-sati-saṅuddha)...

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