We innately like happiness. And because unhappiness contradicts happiness, we naturally resist it. But the truth is—they're not two separate things.

How do we know we want happiness?
And how do we know we don’t want unhappiness?

Even a child, when left alone and hungry without their mother, instinctively becomes uncomfortable and expresses it—through crying, restlessness, or distress. No one teaches the child this. It comes from within.

This shows us something important: the knowledge of happiness is built into us.
The sense of comfort, peace, and joy is intrinsic to our being.
We are innately happy.

Look around you—animals, trees, flowers, plants, and even the objects around us. They all exist in the here and now, without concern for the past or the future. They simply exist as they are meant to, in alignment with the universe in its original form. And because of that, they are not in agony or longing for something they don’t have.

An apple tree is content producing apples.

An orange tree is content producing oranges.

An apple is happy being an apple.

An orange is happy being an orange.

A flower is happy being a flower.

There’s no confusion, no resistance—no rose says, “I wish I were a lily.” But humans? We often do exactly that. We struggle with being ourselves.

The conclusion, then, is simple: if we could just be—fully and presently ourselves, without dragging in the past or projecting into the future—we would be happy.

But the moment we bring in space, time, memory, and expectation, the problem begins.