p21:

(draft)

Consider the possibility of your experiencing fully delayered, self-aligned*, ego-syntonic*, quasi-“unconditional,” effortless, spontaneous, unmanaged, non-twisty, imperfect, life-embracing, life-indulging happiness* and joy* and satisfaction*.

* = empty* and impermanent* and interdependent* but not unreal*, like, not a consolation prize or a cope, though potentially coexisting with uncertainty, sorrow, loss, and grief (though probably less than you’d think at various points or not what/which/where you thought, also provisionality, provisionality, provisionality, and assume I’m (Mark) massively wrong and pathologically confused somehow and don’t take my word or frame about anything as per usual etc etc etc)

Still getting the wording on this one right. Might add or delete some stuff.

cf. Buddhism of course. Go Buddhism! --- "nibbana with remainder" (nirvana) / "happiness without conditions" stuff (compare w Buddhism's conditioned happiness, too)

Scratch notes:

• The idea being something like, through successive rearrangements of self (bodymind) and world (and intersubjective, I/​thou relating), eventually/​asymptotically happiness (in some relevant, non-cope sense) becomes or emerges as part and parcel of a relatively intertemporally stably dominating body mind "strategy." Not a hack, just natural, ordinary, resiliently, responsively, anti-fragile-ly self-stabilizing, etc., because of what humans are and what the world is.
• Given misfortune, illness, aging, loss, death, etc,. etc., etc., this is potentially a long and counterintuitive and nonmonotonic (worse before better) and even accidentally perverse (trying gets in the way, etc.; false "alarms"/​"""attainments,""" etc.) road, but global wayfinding / global balancing, etc., etc.