Why Do We Desire So Much?

One of the core pieces of the package deal of being human is that we desire. From a very young age until our death beds, our lives are filled with desires. From morning till night we desire. Any desire breeds fantasies about how we’ll be or what we’ll do when our desires are realized…. so we get caught up in the stories as well. The big dilemma comes when we achieve our goals, when the desire actually IS fulfilled. We finally get that new car, that new job, that new relationship, that new house…and, for a minute, we’re happy. Not because we got the car or the job or the relationship or the house, but because for a short time the craving stops. It is the cessation of craving that actually makes us happy, not the object of our desire itself. Once each desire is fulfilled, we just start desiring something else, then something else. Desires don’t go away…they just breed more desires. So, what do we do?

In this vital teaching, Sadhviji shares with us that the nature of the mind and the nature of desires is that, whatever we have, we want something else. No matter what we get, desires keep breeding desires. Watch and listen as she explains what the fundamental lie is that keeps us wanting more and more.