Steve, Yes, being happy is part of being enlightened. There must be something else in addition to happiness. Anthony
--- On Fri, 8/4/11, SteveW <[email protected]> wrote: From: SteveW <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Zen] Why bother with Zazen? Better a Roulette To: [email protected] Date: Friday, 8 April, 2011, 10:23 AM --- In [email protected], Anthony Wu <wuasg@...> wrote: > > Steve, > Â > I have a complete set of greed, aversion and delusion. With aging, they are > going down, but not enough to be enlightened. > Â > Anthony > > Hi Anthony. I tend to think that "happy" (in the true sense of the word) is a > better word than "enlightened". Are you generally happy? Of course, true happiness includes being generally sympathetic, compassionate of other's pain, and contented with what one has. If you can generally rest in those qualities, and can see that all phenomena are impermanent, without a separate, independantly-existing self-identity, then what else is needed? Steve > >
