How to understand lay equanimity from MN 137?
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What does that mean? What is an example of lay equanimity?
The outward appearance of equanimity based on household life vs. based on renunciation would probably look the same: calmness, composure, unswayed, etc.. The inner power that drives such behavior is different. In the lay equanimity, it lacks the contemplative insight, hence the wisdom, into the true nature of conditioned phenomena. And that's why it's still limited and has not transcended the sensory objects that come into range. While the renunciated kind possesses the insight element, hence the wisdom to transcend forms as described in the next paragraph:
βHerein, what are the six kinds of equanimity based on renunciation? When, by knowing the impermanence, change, fading away, and cessation of forms, one sees as it actually is with proper wisdom that forms both formerly and now are all impermanent, suffering, and subject to change, equanimity arises. Such equanimity as this transcends the form; that is why it is called equanimity based on renunciation.
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