How to overcome desires - Ayya Karunika Theri - 19-03-2026

A talk Based on Suttanipata 4.1. You’re overjoyed if you get what you want. If you don’t, you writhe, a hunter pierced by your own arrow, born of desire, engendering desire, desire driven. No matter what you long for: a house, land, livestock, gold, serfs, servants, slaves, men, women, family, (innocent things of themselves) the longing overwhelms you till troubles bear down and suffering follows like water rushing into a leaky boat. But if you’re mindful you evade desire as easily as side- stepping a snake. You’re free of the world’s sticky traps. Be mindful. Abandon desire. Bale out the boat & reach the further shore.