Cattāri Brahmavihārā

I seem to have entered a period where much of my Dhamma contemplation and thinking about the practice is centered on or related to meeting my an experience with an intention to be unmoved by pleasure and pain.  Yes, that may sound strange but I think it begins to make a kind of pre-verbal sense if you have ever had the experience (in meditation primarily although I imagine there must be yogi/nis who notice this during daily life) of standing above the flood sensations and thoughts. I suppose, like everything else we learn, it is a calling to mind of that feeling and that kind of attention that helps to assure the mind that equanimity can be had, it is real.