Equanimity

 We need to realise that everything that appears in the mind – good or bad – is, in the first instance, merely an appearance of one taste. Before we get caught up in whether we like it or not, there is merely a noting, an awareness. Even before the soup is perceived as salty, plain, tomato-y, thick, thin, there is merely taste. Then comes too salty, plain, tomato-y, thick, thin…

 A yogi just eats what is placed before them, allowing karmic debt to be repaid.

In that first milli-moment there is equanimity, an inner peace that is naturally there. All we have to do is hold off liking or disliking. We may still take action, but not out of like or dislike. One taste is within all the senses and mind.

A yogi just eats, walks, sits…never waits, as waiting implies expectation.

Equanimity implies trust in spontaneous presence.