Part 3 - The example of being seduced by desire

Thus, though all sentient beings want to find happiness and be free from suffering:

We may wish to find bliss, and be separated from suffering,
But suffering, both as cause and effect, is rushing upon us.
Like a moth attracted by the flame of a lamp,
Enticed by grasping, desirous of its wished-for object; 
Or like beings like deer, and bees, and elephants,
Enticed by means of sound or smell or taste, or touch,
Beings are seduced by desire for the five objects of sense.
See how they never are happy, but only in suffering.

Because of being ignorant about appropriate accepting and rejecting, those who want powerful means of entering into the fruition, do not produce the cause, appropriate accepting and rejecting, so how can separation from or non-attainment of that fruition not be produced. Thus though they desire to produce happiness, they do not practice the cause, good actions.

We want to leave suffering behind, yet we wholeheartedly enter into its cause, non-virtue. We chiefly practice the causes of suffering, the five klesha-poisons, and the three chief klesha-poisons. Thus we rush to practice that which is defined as the source of all suffering, and whose fruition is that which is defined as suffering itself, with experience of its different varieties. We just accept this and cannot even be ashamed of it. This is like a thief who is punished by having his hands cut off, but still robs us again. This time his punishment is having his head cut off. The Bodhicharyavatara says:

We think we have the intention of getting rid of suffering, Instead we run right to that very suffering.
Though we want happiness, because of ignorance, We conquer our own happiness like an enemy

How do we conquer it? By the force of desire and attachment to the five desirables, the power of the kleshas increases, and we enter into suffering.

A moth desiring the form of a lamp's light, is burned by reaching it. Deer are killed because they listen to the sound of a flute. Bees, by sucking flowers, the source of nectar get tangled, or die when they close. Fishermen entice fish by the taste of food on the point of a hook and kill them. Elephants wanting to feel cool, go into lakes and drown. Our situation is like that. A song in the Dohakosha says:

By the mudra of samsara all beings are seduced. Also it says there:

Kye ho! The stupid are wounded by arrows it is said.
View them as having been enticed like gullible deer.
They are like fish and butterflies, elephants and bees,

The kleshas arise from the five sense-objects, and by their force we wander endlessly in samsara. This is more to be feared than poison, it is taught. The Letter to a Student says:

Objects and poison alike are pleasant on first experience.
Objects and poison alike are unbearably harsh when ripe.
Objects and poison alike are imbibed because of ignorance.
Objects and poison alike are potent and hard to reverse.

When poison and objects are truly examined by the mind,
At worst poisons easily overwhelm, as unnatural objects.
Poison is only poisonous in a single life.
Objects are also poisonous in other lives.

Poison when mixed with other poison is neutralized.
As with supreme secret mantra, it is suitable to cure
Using poison as medicine that is a remover of poison.
Poison skillfully used is of human benefit.
However, the great poison, objects, never will be so.