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)!
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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In sum: Some approaches to "fun," or relationships to "fun," will condition attachment, but not all "fun" will necessarily, in all cases, do so if handled wisely. 5/5
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