Equanimity generally has more wisdom than patience does. But again as I have already explained, the patience with wisdom is what we'd like to have. Then it becomes very much like equanimity. If you're not picking up on this, with these ten Paramis, ten perfections, you can't just take one and do just that and leave the other nine. You can't do it that way. They're all interrelated. They're all connected, interrelated. When the get connected in a really nice way, and we build a Lego set, whatever, then we've got a really good practice. But if we're keeping patience over here, and we're keeping equanimity there, morality there and so on, our practice is going to be fragmented and so is our life.
Equanimity has a lot of caring with it. Patience doesn't need caring. That's a big difference. It's doesn't need caring; it can have it, but it doesn't need it. Equanimity needs caring. That's a major sort of difference between the two. Equanimity will look a lot like patience, because it's not wanting any thing. It's quite peaceful, it's OK. Yet it's always a not wanting with wisdom. That's one thing with equanimity, the type we want always has wisdom with it. So the fact that equanimity always wants to have wisdom, always wants to have compassion with it, that makes it a bit different to patience.