Integrity is doing the right thing when no one is looking. We assume various roles in our daily lives and we play them seamlessly like accomplished actors. Are we consistent in our responses? Do we respond in the same way to everyone/everything? No. We behave differently with people/situations of significance or value in our lives and differently with others. We maintain a private face and a public face and in doing so lose the essence of our true being…
Equanimity is when you have established yourself in a state that you no longer have to behave differently in different situations or with different people. You can be equanimous if you realize your true nature as a direct experience, equanimity cannot be faked. When you realize that there is nothing to be got or lost, you automatically are at peace with everything/everyone.
Observe this role playing in your own life, you would be amused/surprised to see the different ways in which you respond/behave with different people/situations. This continued observation itself would give you the reflection of your nature which when deepened would give you a perspective of the Self underneath. Equanimity/peace then would be a by-product of the process of observation and the consequent awareness…
Bodhisattva 