Not just sexual desire, but all-wanting of stuff and prestige. 3. To stop suffering, you must rid yourself of desire. This sounds simple enough, but if you've ever been dumped by someone, you know that it is not that easy to just stop desiring. 4. So how do you do it? By following the Eightfold Path, which, as you may suspect, is a set of eight prescriptions on how to live that we don't have time to talk about because oh wait, look, Thought Bubble!