Upekha. You will hear me return to this word again and again. It sits quietly at the center of our Triyana practice, and it follows you into your everyday life. Upekha. A steady presence in the middle of movement.
The Space That Holds Everything
Upekha is often translated as equanimity, yet the word points toward something more alive, more intimate. It is a quality of mind that remains open and balanced, even as experience shifts. Thoughts arise, emotions move, sensations pass through—and still, something in you stays available, uncontracted.
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In Buddhism, this openness is inseparable from awareness itself. Clear, knowing, and spacious. A mind that includes rather than narrows. Think of bamboo in the wind. It moves. It adapts. It responds without losing its center. There is strength in that kind of softness.
How You Meet It in Daily Life
You don’t need a special setting to encounter Upekha. It meets you in the middle of your day. A conversation takes an unexpected turn. You feel the stirring of reaction. Upekha is the space that allows you to listen a moment longer.
A beautiful moment appears. The wish to hold onto it comes quickly. Upekha brings a gentle ease, letting the moment unfold as it is.
Discomfort arrives. Restlessness follows. Upekha supports your capacity to remain present, to stay with what is here without tightening around it.
This is where practice becomes embodied.
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In Buddhism, every experience carries the potential for awakening. Upekha creates the inner environment where that potential can reveal itself. Without it, the mind organizes itself around preference and habit. With it, experience opens.
The Quiet Discipline of Openness
This way of being asks something of you.
A willingness to stay when intensity rises.
A sensitivity that allows experience without shutting down.
A steadiness that does not depend on circumstances aligning.
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Within Buddhist Vajrayana teachings, all phenomena are understood as empty in essence and luminous in appearance. Upekha supports your direct experience of this. You begin to sense the fluidity beneath what once felt fixed. The edges soften. The need to control relaxes. Awareness remains. And within that awareness, there is space to respond rather than react. This is a subtle strength. It grows through practice, through returning, through remembering.
An Invitation to See More Clearly
Upekha becomes a ground you can live from. A way of meeting life that stays open, responsive, and awake. If something in you resonates with this, I invite you to continue exploring.
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Next weekend, I will offer a workshop on emptiness—lifting the veil of illusion through the teachings of Prajna Paramita. A space to look more directly, to experience what these words are pointing toward.
You are welcome to step in.
/ Lama Chimey
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