Transcendent Happiness

By charlie 5

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, the American constitution declares. Happiness is what we need so bad, Led Zeppelin sang.

But the word happiness is easily misunderstood, a single word used for a wide variety of meanings.

Having been raised in Jesuit Catholicism and taught to study the world religions, later becoming a practicing Buddhist and Taoist, and having studied and deeply enjoyed most notably the perspectives of Dzogchen, the Hindu Upanishads, and Ling Bao Taoism, and integrated their remarkably similar visions of transcendence into my life over time, in a world where a deep malaise seems to darken the lives of so many, I try to clarify the path of happiness that they reveal and cultivate, a path I think is the pinnacle of the human experience, sometimes referred to as self-realization, the ultimate reward and meaning for life, not transient happiness like a glass of wine with dinner and friends, but transcendent happiness, the happiness beyond birth and death that is inextricably intertwined with compassion, radical transcendent unity, the bliss of saints.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F9X7W4H8
• ISBN13: 9798309958269
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 102 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"