Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche offers a clear explanation of what it means to have accessed original mind, which describes as the best defintion of what Buddhists mean by happiness.
"Any attempt to capture the direct experience of the nature of mind in words is impossible. The best that can be said is that the experience is immeasurably peaceful, and, once stabilized through repeated experience, virtually unshakable. It's an experience of absolute well-being that radiates through all physical, emotional, and mental states - even those that might ordinarily be labeled as unpleasant. This sense of well-being, regardless of the fluctuation of outer and inner experiences, is one of the clearest ways to understand what Buddhists mean by "happiness". . . .
(Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, The Joy of Living, 22)
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