imperturbability
30 Oct 2021 - 09 Jan 2025
- A human attribute which partakes of the divine (the only truly unmoved entity in the cosmos).
- One of the lesser known qualities of 'Pataphysics. Aka ataraxia. Also important in Buddhism, where it is called upekkha and is one of the Four Immeasurable Virtues. Equanimity – Insight Meditation Center
- Referenced in this passage from the Vimalakirti Sutra
... when a bodhisattva considers all living beings in this way, he thinks: ‘Just as I have realized the Dharma, so should I teach it to living beings.’ Thereby, he generates the love that is truly a refuge for all living beings; the love that is peaceful because free of grasping ...the love that is imperturbable because totally ultimate.
Many times that's what life is, one vile task after another. But don't get aggravated – then the enemy has you by the short hair. – Al Swearengen