Does delusion come when you want to believe something so bad that the facts will not change your mind? There is great instruction in failure and sorrow but that doesn’t change them to happy moments. When you put your hand in the fire especially when you where warned not to, the burn certainly instructs but does that make the burn any less painful?

You could have learned from others in a zero painful way but you choose the path of direct knowledge.

Let’s face it the instruction and knowledge from a burn is far more powerful than just the words of a wise man. The words from a wise man can easily be forgotten but the direct experience from the burn , that instruction