Seven Pillars of Equanimity/Balance

I leave to each of your individual mediations the seven pillars that lead to equanimity/balance

• Virtue or integrity
• Faith or confidence
• Mindfullness
• A sense of well being
• Understanding or wisdom
• Insight
• Freedom or Letting Go

We often talk about freedom as individual independence — the ability to do or be whatever/whoever we want. There is another way to look at freedom. It is the freedom or letting go of conditioned responses and our reactive tendencies. This kind of letting go frees us from bigotry, prejudice, and discrimination. Freedom from social pressures frees us from the need for approval from family and friends. Freedom from worldly wants frees us from attachments that tie down one’s soul.

Much like a sail carries one’s boat with a wind, worldly attachments make it difficult not to be carried off by the worldly winds. Freedom is an anchor that holds us where we want to be no matter how strong the wind blows.

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About the author

Webb Hubbell is the former Associate Attorney General of The United States. His novels, When Men Betray, Ginger Snaps, A Game of Inches, The Eighteenth Green, and The East End are published by Beaufort Books and are available online or at your local bookstore. When Men Betray won one of the IndieFab awards for best novel in 2014. Ginger Snaps and The Eighteenth Green won the IPPY Awards Gold Medal for best suspense/thriller. His latest, “Light of Day” will be on the bookstands soon.