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What is Buddha's concept of unhappiness?

Unhappiness arises not from life itself, but from our clinging to pleasure and our aversion to pain; true liberation comes through awareness and the art of non-attachment.

— Osho
According to Osho, Buddha sees unhappiness (dukkha) not as life’s only reality but as a process born of clinging and avoidance. Pleasure and pain continually transform into each other; when we grasp at pleasure or resist pain, suffering results. Understanding this impermanence and dropping attachment dissolves misery. Thus Buddha discusses suffering to reveal the way beyond it—awareness, acceptance, and non‑clinging.

We feel unhappy when we cling to nice things or fight bad ones; if we relax and let things change, the pain eases.