The Buddha gave us a powerful frame to explore and work skillfully with the inevitable ups and downs of life, what he called the “Eight Worldly Winds”: pleasure and pain, praise and blame, fame and disrepute, and gain and loss. With mindfulness and compassion, we can begin to change our relationship to these forces and embrace them as a natural part of our daily living. In this online series, offered by Matthew Daniell through Cambridge Insight Meditation Center, we will systematically explore the Eight Worldly Winds as they actually function in our lives. We will learn to touch awareness and create the conditions where equanimity can arise in relation to the different changing experiences that constitute our world and our lives.

This program is appropriate for both new and experienced meditators of all levels of experience. Sessions will include formal meditation practice, time for discussion, reflections, and questions.

Matthew Daniell is the guiding teacher of NSIMC. He has been practicing Buddhist meditation since the 1980s, including over a decade in Asia, where he practiced Zen intensively in Japan, Tibetan Buddhism in India, and Insight meditation in Burma, India, and Thailand. Read more about Matthew on his teacher page.