Serene
In Buddhist teaching the way of Samatha can be described as "a tranquility of mind; a calm abiding, which steadies, composes, unifies and concentrates the mind."
This is the way to describe a serene person. One who is calm and centred even in the midst of a world plunged into chaos. It is a discipline that can only be learned through PRACTISE (i.e the verb).
The Buddhist literature on the relationship between Samatha and Vipassanā (meaning true insight) is extremely voluminous. What sounds like a straightforward relationship to the trivial materialistic Western mind requires (in Buddhist thinking) many lifetimes of discipline and practise to finally realise Awakening (anuttarā-samyak-saṃbodhi).
Siddhartha Gautama (6th century BC) is said to have realised this within a single lifetime and became the Buddha Shakyamuni ("Sage of the Shakyas").
Serene
In Buddhist teaching the way of Samatha can be described as "a tranquility of mind; a calm abiding, which steadies, composes, unifies and concentrates the mind."
This is the way to describe a serene person. One who is calm and centred even in the midst of a world plunged into chaos. It is a discipline that can only be learned through PRACTISE (i.e the verb).
The Buddhist literature on the relationship between Samatha and Vipassanā (meaning true insight) is extremely voluminous. What sounds like a straightforward relationship to the trivial materialistic Western mind requires (in Buddhist thinking) many lifetimes of discipline and practise to finally realise Awakening (anuttarā-samyak-saṃbodhi).
Siddhartha Gautama (6th century BC) is said to have realised this within a single lifetime and became the Buddha Shakyamuni ("Sage of the Shakyas").