Best Of

Your worst enemy could be your best friend
and your best friend your worst enemy

~The late great Bob Marley~

My partner is involved with an on-line writing group where once a week a different member suggests a topic to write about. This weeks topic was happiness and she asked me what I thought that was. Now a smarter man would probably have said "just being with you" but being the relationship challenged meditation obsessive that I am
my answer was "the absence of suffering ".
Now I'm usually cautious about talking much about the subject of happiness in a Buddhist practice because of how often it seems to become another thing for folks to try to attach to, but it did make me wonder what this Sangha's view of it was.

you could say that happiness is a skill that can be trained

I knew it!

For example. Imagine that we practice metta. To the point were we can connect/generate/visualise this happiness to all beings whenever it is needed.

Would that make us happy little buddha-bunnys? You bet your impediments/unhappiness/samsara being it would …

Iz plan!