Being seduced by desire is so enticing because it actually feels good and this is why desire is so powerful. The only real issue with this is because of the impermanent nature of desire. It simply will not last no matter what; it has no staying power so something else will be needed almost immediately following the attainment of the desire. Think about it, with all the desires that have been attained throughout your life regardless of what it was, it doesn’t bring the fulfillment now that it brought at that time. Most times even if the same exact desired fulfillment is physically repeated it's usually not as satisfying as the first experience. I used so many things as I was seduced by my desired seeking conditioning, but it was never lasting. The seduction of the next needed desire always arose. This went on all the time, attaining one desire after another and never being satisfied.
I've come to understand being seduced by desire as the main reason people reach for things. If your desires didn’t need fulfillment nothing would be reached for so there would never be a need for anything hence there wouldn’t be any issue. But unfortunately the seduction of desire has its way with people as it's deeply ingrained in the subconscious and has been in place before your existence began. I know being seduced by desire is what was controlling me for forty nine years and it was directly associated with "I". Without "I" no one is there to be seduced. Even with this understanding, being seduced by desire doesn't just disappear, but it does subside somewhat. To me the most important thing to understand about this is, the less one is attached to "I" the less one will be seduced and it's because without "I" there's no one who needs to fulfill the next desire...
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