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Exchanging and Equalizing Oneself with Others

We will now turn to the other method for transforming the mind, which is exchanging and equalizing oneself with others. Here again, the first stage is the cultivation of equanimity, although the meaning of equanimity in this context is different from the one we spoke of earlier. Here, equanimity is understood as the fundamental equality of all beings, in the sense that just as you have the spontaneous wish to be happy and overcome suffering, so does every single other being, in equal measure.