What is your idea of perfect happiness?

a video embedded in an article on Marcel Proust*

the title of this post – What is your idea of perfect happiness? – is the first item in the Proust Questionnaire (!?)

what follows is in response to that question

wanting anything is dukkha

wanting nothing is nirvana

wanting nothing other than that none want
anything more than needed
to be and let be, to live and let live,
with love, compassion, joy, and equanimity
is still wanting something, is still dukkha

that said,

anyone can balance dukkha with equanimity  
in this moment, the ever-changing present

with appamāda


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phrases shown with links:
dukkha (!?)
nirvana (!o)
love, compassion, joy, and equanimity (!?)
the ever-changing present*
appamāda (!?)* *
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