Eight winds or worldly concerns
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eight winds or worldly concerns:
Eight situations that normally preoccupy and sway unrealized people. The eight winds are
gain labha);
loss (alabha),
honor or fame (yasas);
disgrace or dishonor or infamy (ayasas),
praise (prasama);
ridicule or censure, blame or criticism (ninda);
pleasure or happiness (sukha);
and suffering or pain (duhkha).
To be unmoved by the eight winds is a mark of a true practitioner. It is attachment to these eight winds through either desire or adversion that results in our suffering and continued rebirth in samsara.
See; Atthalokadhamma Sutta.
