5.
The First Discourse on Worldly Adversities
5.
"These eight worldly adversities, monks, keep revolving around the world, and the world keeps revolving around the eight worldly adversities.
What are the eight?
Material gain and loss, fame and disgrace, blame and praise, happiness and suffering.
These, monks, are the eight worldly adversities that keep revolving around the world, and the world keeps revolving around these eight worldly adversities."
Blame and praise, happiness and suffering;
These phenomena among humans are impermanent,
Non-eternal, subject to change.
Considers them as subject to change;
Desirable phenomena do not churn the mind,
Nor does he come to repulsion from the undesirable.
Are scattered, passed away, they do not exist;
And having known the state, stainless, sorrowless,
He rightly understands, one gone beyond existence." The fifth.