There's no true meditation without happiness. Sangharakshita describes Samadhi, often translated as 'concentration', as dependent upon the conditions of Sukha, that of happiness and bliss.

From the talk The Stages of the Spiritual Path, part of the series Introducing Buddhism, 1966.

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