8.Happiness{8} To have one’s wishes fulfilled, and be in happy and favorable conditions. To enjoy material comfort and emotional satisfaction; and feel happiness and joyfulness.

What has been said above interprets praise, ridicule, defamation, fame, profit, loss, suffering, and happiness. They are like eight different kinds of winds that can affect our mind and body. When favorable conditions are present, there will happiness. When adverse conditions come to us, there will suffering and worries, because we are trapped by the Eight Winds.

If people become attached to fame, their personality can collapse under the fame. If people’s minds are affected by defamation, they will fail to succeed. If people indulge in happiness, their integrity will be destroyed. If people fall because of loss and suffering, they will be struck down. If we can remain unmoved by the horrific realm of the Eight Winds, and not be struck by it, we will become truly free strong.



【Key Word】
{8}Happiness： 樂