Originally Posted by
AlanLa
... My experience of equanimity as it has evolved with my zen practice was that it took the edge off feelings, and I thought this was the good and proper Path, but the result was being sad but not too sad, happy but not too happy, etc., and that seemed more like stoicism than equanimity. ....
Also, seeing that feelings were essentially empty made them seem pointless thought delusions, and that didn't seem right either. So I began to doubt this was the way to go and wonder what was the Equanimous Path....
So Jundo, if I understand your post above correctly, and if I may borrow a concept/phrase from a recent dharma talk, it seems that you are saying that to be equanimous is to dance with life. When times are sad, do the sad dance. When times are happy, do the happy dance. Move from one dance to the other, not lingering or wanting any particular dance. Don't attach to one particular feelings dance, but rather learn them all and live them all fully and completely, and then move on.