The Connection Between Pleasure and Happiness

When we seek an object hoping to derive happiness from it, that might be an intimate relationship, a better state of health, more money and so on. We conflate pleasure with happiness because while we're seeking the object, we are by definition unhappy. The acquisition of the object doesn't deliver happiness but puts an end to the activity of seeking. And at that moment, the mind collapses and we taste our true nature of happiness. If this were not the case, Laura, there would be a different kind of happiness for every experience. There'd be a particular happiness that you feel when you have strawberries and cream, and different kind of Happiness when you feel the sunlight on your skin. But