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Originally Posted by Mark Lapierre  If real happiness is shadowed by the mind then any enjoyable activity which involves the mind cannot be experienced as real happiness. My personal experiences, and the tales of many other people's experiences, deny that implication. |
This is what confuses many people... what they really mean here Mark, is Ultimate happiness... your experiences are real for you, which make the moment a moment of "real" happiness. What the posters here are really referring to is not temporary happiness but rather the idea of supreme happiness, which overrides any momentary pleasure. Momentary pleasure and/or happy experiences are "real", but fleeting... Ultimate true happiness is something far beyond that state, and is a pre-supposed state of pleasure even in the midst of trial, however it is not practically achievable in an ultimate sense, but rather it is an ideal of a perpetual state of joy and peace and serenity. Yet we have experienced moments close to these in our lives.