ABSTRACT
If I talk of happiness, it is because something makes me suffer. My dream of happiness is a dream of the absence of suffering. My image of bliss is the negative of my experience of chagrin. My Garden of Eden is freedom from everything which harrows me in the Vale of Tears. Happiness is the act of liberation from suffering. Suffering is always specific. The image of happiness is always generalized, as the elimination of specific suffering is seen as eradication of all suffering.
