08 March 2011

Doing nothing

If we posit satiation as the centerpiece of our material and non-material life, then equanimity or the lack thereof is the experience of the appreciation of satiation. 
To have achieved equanimity is in an of itself a positive value. It is to have reduced the influence of anxiety as a factor motivating one's decision-making. To have lost one's equanimity, even in the face of considerable material wealth, is to have subjected oneself to the challenges of insecurity, even when that insecurity might be coupled to material abundance. 
Equanimity is the option of doing nothing. When we kick people out of equanimity we force them into the marketplace. Equanimity is the option not to enter the market. 

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