Question

My capacity for having compassion seems to be limited by the level of equanimity I have developed. Please teach us techniques to strengthen equanimity.

Answer

Very early in this period I was talking about unpleasant physical sensations. Work with it some more, see how it is related to the mental unpleasant experiences that you have. Because the more you are able to deal with the mosquitoes, the more you are able to deal with being sick, having a fever, stomach ache, headache. The more you can deal with these physical unpleasant things, you are going to be able to deal equally with your mental stuff. So equanimity will come to a very large extent the more you see that unpleasant things are not necessarily unpleasant.

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