Spiritual Happiness is the Path to Enlightenment | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Dhamma Talk

Dhammagiri Buddhist Podcasts · Mar 25, 2025 · 25m

As followers of the Buddha, are we devoted to the persuit of pleasure?

Amazingly, and perhaps even counterintuitively, the answer is actually 'Yes"!

It's not every kind of pleasure, though: we're not persuing happiness based on sensual indulgence, or anything causing harm to other beings. We only persue wholesome, spiritual pleasure, like the happiness one gets from practising generosity and helping other beings;

or the blameless happiness and freedom from remorse one gains from keeping precepts;

or the unperturbed happiness one gains from restraining the doors of the senses;

and in…