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which they try to derive happiness are themselves of the nature of suffering. The suffering of such people, at root comes from their search for sense-pleasure and sense-ob- jects. Even the suffering that comes to us from unjust gov- ernment, robbery, fire and flood which affects all in the Three Spheres, could not affect those people who took no happi- ness from sense-pleasure and sense-objects. Thus one should strive with diligence to minimize hankering after sense- pleasures — not being deluded by love, not being attached to sense-pleasures — but cultivating the mind to purity — renouncing the so-called ‘pleasures’ derived from sense- pleasure and sense-objects in order to effect one’s own sal- vation.