The Role of Happiness in Sutra and Tantra

The topic of happiness in Buddhism is very profound and far-reaching. It indicates the way of traveling through the combined path of sutra and tantra from the point of view of increasingly intensifying our innate joy and using this as a method for strengthening our networks of positive force and deep awareness. When we strengthen the factor of happiness and combine it with an understanding of voidness, that happiness can help us to access our clear light mind. This is the most subtle and efficient level of mind for the non-conceptual cognition of voidness so that we can cut through and eliminate our suffering and the causes of our suffering most efficiently and quickly.