Having fun with practice goes a long way in ensuring the sustainability of progress. Cheers to the samādhi of playfulness (遊|游戲三昧)!
Fun (in this case, "the samādhi of playfulness") functions to remove attachment, particularly attachment to rigid means of practice, i.e., "taking oneself too seriously." If fun is *abused* as an escape and dependency forms, then medicine has been turned into poison. 2/
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As an empirical test of attachment, if the pleasant feelings (sukhā vedanā) conditioned by one's practice occur without the subsequent arising of craving (taṇhā), then clinging-attachment (upādāna) has no footing. 3/
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In Buddhist contemplative frameworks, pleasant experiences in and of themselves are unproblematic. In fact, intensely pleasant experiences arise in meditative absorptions known as jhāna-s without issue, unless, of course, they become objects of subsequent craving/attachment. 4/
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