edited insight for meditation ;-) ... "[A]fter all that has been done in the pursuit of happiness, it turns out that sustainable happiness is achievable simply by bringing attention to one's breath. If you practice bringing a firm and gentle attention to your breath, after a while, you may find yourself in a state where you are alert and relaxed at the same time. If you practice often enough, you may even become able to bring your mind to that state on demand. When our mind becomes calm and clear, it returns to its default, and that default is happiness. It implies that happiness is not something that you pursue, it is something you allow. To paraphrase a famous Zen saying, you are already happy, you just have not yet realized it." - Adriano

Clear minded is not necessarily happy. 'Happy' is a thought, a reflection, a realization. Maybe some people feel happy on reflection of their clear mind -- but to generalize that the clear state is a happy state is just wishful thinking. It's phenomenologically impossible in an actual brain. Maybe he just means 'peace', which he equates with 'good'. - Christopher Galtenberg