The eight worldly winds

Praise and blame,

gain and loss,

fame and disrepute,

pleasure and sorrow come and go like the wind.

To be happy, rest like a giant tree in the midst of them all.

The Buddha

One thought on “The eight worldly winds

  1. These are eight social behaviors linked to our primary emotions. Even though the Buddha preaches detachment from them as in enlightenment, we human are intractably tied to our emotions.

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