As distinguished from kamma, kama means “sense pleasure” in Pāli. (The Sanskrit equivalent is familiar through the well-known Kama Sutra.) In Gotama’s teachings, clinging to sense pleasure & clinging to views (diṭṭhi, fixed ideas, absolutes) are the two categories of mental events that must be clearly understood & seen, if liberation is to be achieved. Sense pleasure has arisen through evolution as a key way to create behaviors that repeat themselves. These mental events create & support the sense of a solid self, an “I” who feels good (for example) & an “I” who knows (has an idea believed to be completely right, in opposition to all similar or related ideas). If this process is not clearly seen as experience arises, it causes dukkha (stress & suffering).