Common denominator between forms of happiness included in dukkha What is the common denominator between the happiness derived from family life and the happiness derived from being a recluse?
The common denominator is the feeling of pleasure. Apart from that, the conditions giving rise to the two types of pleasure are different. The conditions giving rise to the pleasure of the household life is craving &amp; affection where as the conditions giving rise to the pleasure of the recluse life is the abandoning of craving &amp; affection.

Monks, there are two kinds of pleasantness. What two? Household pleasantness and the pleasantness of one gone forth. Of these two, the pleasantness of one gone forth is better.
AN 2.7