If you wake up one day with the overwhelming desire to make a million dollars, you will suffer until you have in your possession a million dollars. The price you pay for a desire is a degree of suffering until you possess the thing that you desire: money, fame, sex, food, drugs, luxury, etc.

What's worse is that desire breeds more desire. The moment you have in your possession a million dollars, is the moment you desire two million dollars. And, the moment you have in your possession two million dollars, is the moment you desire three million dollars. And so on.

If desire is a series of islands that each promise warmer and more tropical weather than the last, suffering is the boat we are rowing. Eventually, to do away with our suffering, we must give up desire. We must dock the boat and decide the island we are standing on is enough.

Furthermore, desire and suffering provoke one another like two Bengal Tigers encroaching on the other's territory. When we are suffering, we look towards desire to ease our suffering; and once we get what we desire, we desire more which only leads to more suffering.

Desire and suffering are two side of the same coin.