"The point is to leave the mental realm, where most of our unhappiness takes root and grows, and enter into the nonconceptual experience of the present moment, which is purely physical."

Beyond happiness

"Equanimity is a way of being present with pleasure without attachment and of being present with pain without resistance. Equanimity embraces both pleasure and pain, and by doing so can bear them both without suffering."

Unlimiting mind - p. 7