The Eight Worldly Concerns: Overcoming the Obstacles to Genuine Happiness
Week One - Introduction and Gain & Loss
David Oromith · 86 minutes · recorded September 22, 2026
David introduces the eight worldly concerns and reads the Lokavipatti Sutta: all eight arise for everyone, and the difference is seeing them as inconstant and subject to change. He talks about why attachment always comes with fear, and why the stuff is not the problem, but our relationship with it. In the analytical meditation we bring to mind something we gained and something we lost, and follow where each feeling went. David describes equanimity as being steady in the middle of a seesaw.
Attachment and craving Genuine happiness and wellbeing Impermanence The eight worldly concerns Analytical meditation The Pali suttas