Sensual pleasures are like poisoned candy

Sensual pleasures are like poisoned candies; sweet at first, but if you indulge too much they will make you sick, perhaps to death. The activities that lead to lasting joy are often a little bitter at first, but become sweet as time goes on. They are born of the ability to clearly perceive what is really in your best interest. Most pleasures involve satisfying sensual desires and ultimately lead to suffering if they are not done with restraint. Finding pleasure in laziness or intoxication is a result of misunderstanding what pleasure really is and arises in a mind that has been deluded. That kind of pleasure-seeking is self-destructive both in the beginning and at the end.