genes or DNA One of the main contributions of Finding #2 is in clearing up the confusion about two questions: What is happiness? And what causes happiness? Finding #2 has drawn a fine line between what happiness is and what makes people happy Many people are often confused when answering these two questions Often when we ask people—what is happiness? They start to explain in terms of what makes them happy For instance, if we ask someone, "what in your opinion is happiness?" They would often reply, "In my opinion, true happiness is being with my friends," thereby answering the question, what makes them happy This confusion applies even to some happiness researchers For example, if a sociologist finds out that chatting with friends on the weekends makes people very happy, the researcher would likely conclude that social relationships precede happiness The present study suggests there is only one source of happiness—human beings’ true nature8 (Finding #1) that does not interfere with their mental realm (Finding #2) That one source of happiness is separate from their mind and body (including their mental experiences, emotions, thoughts, even virtuous actions, and the objective universe) As for what makes people happy, the present study indicates that as mind relaxes, an individual experiences more and more happiness, originating from that single source of infinite happiness (Themes through 12) Accordingly, like Finding #1 (see above—Finding #1 questions the happiness set-point theory), Finding #2 also seems to question happy theories that claim happiness is coded in human genes or DNA (Brickman Our true nature is not merely subjective; it is identical with everyone's true nature Please refer to Subtheme 6.2—happiness is all-pervasive and infinite 192