Buddhist Philosophy in India and Ceylon c11.s2.20

c11.s2.20

Both sets of meditations are deemed to be distinguished by happiness, a view which seems in obvious contradiction with the absence of pleasure from the last stages in the latter set, and the catalepsy of the last stage of the former set, but the difficulty may be resolved by accepting the distinction between the actual pleasure of the state, and the value of it as tending to the final end; this double use of happiness is another proof of the logical weakness of the Canon.¹