Eight Worldly Concerns

Eight Transitory Things in Life The lam-rim (graded stages) literature speaks of eight transitory things in life. These "eight worldly concerns" or "eight worldly dharmas" are praise or criticism, good or bad news, gains or losses, and things going well or poorly. We may be...

The Eight Worldly Concerns Apart from the experiences and feelings within our minds, there is also the content of our life. It’s the same thing here; we should try not to make a big deal out of it all. The Buddhist teachings emphasize a list of eight transitory things in life...

Verse Eight: The Final Verse (8) Through a mind untarnished by stains of conceptions concerning the eight passing things, throughout all of this, and that knows all phenomena as an illusion, may I break free from my bondage, without any clinging. The Eight Worldly Dharmas The...

Brief Review Of the six far-reaching attitudes, generosity and so forth, we began discussing the sixth one, the far-reaching attitude of discriminating awareness. Prior to that were the verses concerning a combined state of a stilled and settled mind and an exceptionally...

Different exercises that help us maintain balance when receiving or giving the eight transitory things or “eight worldly concerns” in life.

Mind training is a method for transforming negative circumstances into positive ones through improving our attitudes toward them.

An understanding of the four noble truths and karma offers us strategies to deal with the eight worldly concerns.