True happiness is a sense of balance between good and evil

Question from the Internet:

“Is happiness attained by being completely oblivious to all the evil in the world?”

The state of happiness while being oblivious to all the evil in the world is either ignorance or insanity or a state induced by addictive substances.

One cannot be oblivious to the total collapse we are facing, and if one is aware of it one cannot be in a happy state. Especially not in today’s globally integrated and interdependent world, where it does not matter where one lives, what one’s present health, financial, physical, or mental state is, since when the common boat sinks, we will all drown as we are totally interconnected in every respect.

True happiness is a state of balance, homeostasis. This is a state when we are fully aware of all the evil, we also know what their root cause is — our own inherently egocentric, individualistic, exploitative nature — and we learn how to balance, neutralize the evil — which then remains in potential but not actualized — and we reach a unique, fragile balance, equilibrium.

In that purposefully, proactively, methodically achieved balance — in between the potential, “hung” evil and the ability to balance it with “Nature’s good force” — we sense a life, flow which we never felt before, where we feel ourselves existing on a qualitatively much higher, unlimited plane of existence.

This is what makes us happy.