Is it okay to have happiness within but be Christian at the same time or attain enlightenment and be Christian?
But it's okay to have happiness within and be whatever you want, be a Christian.
Is it possible to attain enlightenment and be Christian?
It depends what you mean by Christian.
Because many of the things that Christ said are perfectly fine and actually Buddhist.
You reap what you sow.
The Buddha said that.
something that was echoed by Christ or echoed in the Bible by whoever wrote the Bible, the New Testament.
But if you believe that the only way to go to heaven is through Jesus Christ, if you believe that all you need to do to go to heaven is believe in the reincarnation,
resurrection, right, or so on, or the sanctity, the godhood of Jesus, or if you believe that heaven is permanent, hell is permanent, then these are, if you believe in a soul,
an everlasting soul, or a soul at all, then these are things which will stop you from becoming enlightened.
And do stop Christians from becoming enlightened and practicing Vipassana meditation.
So there's no way around that.
It's not who you are or what you say you are.
I'm Christian, I'm Jewish, I'm Buddhist.
It's the views that you hold that will get in the way.
That's a religious thing.
If you hold views that are contrary to reality, then you'll never come to understand reality.
I mean, really, if you hold any views based on faith that don't have any basis in your investigation and aren't verifiable, aren't verified, then you'll never become enlightened until you're able to verify them or disprove them and give them up.