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Pursuit of Happiness: The Buddhist Way

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From <strong>Happiness</strong> to the Highest <strong>Happiness</strong>“ Birth is the supporting condition for suffering,suffering is the supporting condition for faith,faith is the supporting condition for joy,joy is the supporting condition for rapture,rapture is the supporting condition for tranquility,tranquility is the supporting condition for happiness,happiness is the supporting condition for concentration,concentration is the supporting condition for the knowledgeand vision <strong>of</strong> things as they really are,the knowledge and vision <strong>of</strong> things as they really are is thesupporting condition for disenchantment,disenchantment is the supporting condition for dispassion,dispassion is the supporting condition for emancipation,while emancipation is the supporting condition for theknowledge <strong>of</strong> the destruction <strong>of</strong> the cankers.” [Saṃyuttanikāya]Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Karunadasa’s public lecture on<strong>Pursuit</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Happiness</strong>: <strong>The</strong> <strong>Buddhist</strong> <strong>Way</strong>68 4/13/2013

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