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Devoted to Persuit of Pleasure | Loving Kindness as Source of Happiness | Metta | Ajahn Dhammasiha
Amazingly, the Buddha stated in Pāsādika Sutta (Dīgha Nikāya/Long Discourses #29) that his followers are devoted to the persuit of happiness.
However, it has to be qualified what kind of happiness we're after:
We're not persuing happiness based on evil and unwholesome actions
We're not persuing pleasures of the senses
However, we are devoted to persue the joy, rapture and bliss of samādhi/jhāna
Ajahn Dhammasiha points out that mettā/loving-kindness is for many meditators the easiest way to get access to non-sensual happiness; and he encourages us to cultivate mettā throughout daily life…
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