Hmmm. The word &quot;equanimity&quot; is a noun, so it makes it sound like it&#x27;s some treasure you can possess and somehow, everything will be magically in equanimity. It&#x27;s not like that because you enter a state of present moment awareness, which can start surfacing up a lot of crap. It&#x27;s being OK with the crap -- being OK with being disturbed and uncertain and in anguish and in bliss and a lot of things. For me, it&#x27;s more that ... things arise and passes, and whatever they are, I see them for what it is. And don&#x27;t get me wrong, there&#x27;s still a lot of crap I am working through. Sometimes, I feel like a sewage worker mucking out the endless sewage.<p>Vipassana is one path to work with this. If you are familiar with it, and you have some combination of curiosity and doubt about it, I highly suggest going with it. For others, their path to this will be different.<p>From a Taoist alchemy point of view, there is an excessive, energetic toxin directed related to existential misery. It results from our tech. I say this as a person who makes a living writing software tech. So on the side, I&#x27;ve been exploring that to figure out how to reduce the the anguish specifically related to excessive, toxic tech. From a Vipassana perspective, it doesn&#x27;t matter if it is out of balance. It&#x27;s seeing that dukkha (existential anguish) Just Is.