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Sukha deceives human beings more than dukkha does. Dukkha is straightforward, when
it’s seen it’s known, there’s nothing devious about it, but happiness is more complicated,

it’s deeper, not so simple, and it tortures, but in a way that goes mostly unrecognized,
hence we find infatuation with the sort of happiness which is really a form of torture.

Hence the Buddha said that rāga is something hot, dosa is something hot, and moha is

something hot.

But these three kinds of heat aren’t like the heat one physically feels, they’re the heat
associated with ignorance, hence people fall under the power of hot things, the heat of

the kilesa, the defilements, because there’s a lack of knowledge of nipapetapākiyasaññā,
perception of penetration, clear knowledge of penetration.

We never think about that wisdom, paññā, which is clear knowledge of penetration. We

want the sort of knowledge the defilements want. That’s the wisdom of naughty boys,
which is more a matter of cunning that of seeing anything clearly. If it’s to be real wisdom
then it must of the sort based in clear seeing into the truth of dukkha, into the cause of
dukkha, into the end of dukkha, and into the way to the end of dukkha.

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