I agree with Annette. This is the first time that I've read about 'happiness' as being a descriptor for, well, leading a well-balanced, integral spiritual life. In some ways it's an unfortunate term because it is so easily regarded as superficial and thus discarded (or used to reinforce genuinely superficial egoic goals)
In similar fashion, 'mindfulness' also lends itself to misinterpretation because it seems to imply being full of mind, when it really refers to emptying it through presence.
On May 15, 2013 AlanZulch wrote:
I agree with Annette. This is the first time that I've read about 'happiness' as being a descriptor for, well, leading a well-balanced, integral spiritual life. In some ways it's an unfortunate term because it is so easily regarded as superficial and thus discarded (or used to reinforce genuinely superficial egoic goals)
In similar fashion, 'mindfulness' also lends itself to misinterpretation because it seems to imply being full of mind, when it really refers to emptying it through presence.