Nibbana isn't the ultimate equanimity, it’s the ultimate happiness. The word for happiness, here, sukha, can also mean bliss, pleasure, ease.

"We don’t start out by being equanimous about everything. All too often, people read about the Buddha’s teachings and they see that many of his teachings end in equanimity. The factors for awakening end in equanimity. The four brahma-viharas end in equanimity. It sounds like that’s where we’re going. And many people say, as long as that’s where we’re going, why don’t we just go there first? Why bother with all the steps?

Well, the Buddha’s equanimity is very different from ours. The Buddha has found a true happiness. Notice that he doesn’t say nibbana is the ultimate equanimity. It’s the ultimate happiness: the word for happiness, here, sukha, can also mean bliss, pleasure, ease. And it’s worth our while to aim at that ultimate happiness, that we put forth an effort to attain it. Equanimity meant is for the things that either would pull us from the path, or prevent us from moving further along on the path. You have to develop equanimity for those things, the things that, if you got really involved in them, you wouldn’t have time to practice. You wouldn’t have the energy to practice. And even the equanimity of someone who has attained nibbana is not just a blasé attitude to everything. These people have found the ultimate happiness and so they don’t need to feed on anything else. But that doesn’t mean, though, that they don’t do anything or that they don’t see certain actions as preferable to others. Certain activities are preferable to others. If they can, awakened people still want to make a difference."

~ Thanissaro Bhikkhu "Making a Difference"

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