What are your thoughts on Equanimity?

but if the mountain is smiling .... it isn't equanimity is it ?

lol

actually .... I am a fairly balanced person who doesn't show much emotion

it isn't that I don't feel it ... I just control my emotions well

I am not sure if this is equanimity

however there are times when I consciously have to detach and I can ... in order to better cope with situations

I have struggled with this for a long time

some people think I am cold hearted , but I find it necessary

There are times when the correct response doesn't involve evenness of temper. If you look at Jesus's life. you'll find he was anything but. He wept with those mourning, was angry at people who profaned his father's temple, was sad and lonely.

While it can be a good trait to have, it's not an important one. Part of being a loving human is to be attached and entangled with things, to love them and be disturbed, surprised, and startled by them. Buddhist detachment doesn't really do such, and this is why it generally fails in life. You never see a buddhist monk with kids, because to love a child, you cannot remain disinterested, impetrubale, unexicted, disengaged, etc.

I don't think that all of those things are necessarily to be

thought of as attributes if taken to the extreme. It is

important to have emotional responses, even to the point

of getting a bit out of control once in a while. It would be

inhuman to be that imperturbable.