Equanimity meditation with commentary
Venerable Thubten Chodron 
Cultivating the Four Immeasurables 
May 5, 2025 A guided meditation with teaching for the Singapore Buddhist Mission.
- Introduction
- Meditation on developing equanimity by examining our attitudes toward others
- Think of three people, a friend, someone you don’t like and a stranger
- Reflect on why you’re attached to the friend
- Reflect on why you’re indifferent to the stranger
- Reflect on why you have negative feelings toward the enemy
- Commentary on the meditation
- We evaluate others in terms of how they relate us, how they affect us
- We think others are good or bad from their own side
- Relationships of friends, enemies and strangers change
- Conclusion: We can cultivate an open-hearted attitude that cares about everybody
Equanimity meditation with commentary (download)
Venerable Thubten Chodron
Venerable Chodron emphasizes the practical application of Buddha’s teachings in our daily lives and is especially skilled at explaining them in ways easily understood and practiced by Westerners. She is well known for her warm, humorous, and lucid teachings. She was ordained as a Buddhist nun in 1977 by Kyabje Ling Rinpoche in Dharamsala, India, and in 1986 she received bhikshuni (full) ordination in Taiwan. Read her full bio.
