Confidence: Holding Your Seat through Lifes Eight Worldly Winds [Paperback]

How do we stand firm amid the ups and downs of existence?

In today’s culture of polarization and constant change, how do we find the confidence to navigate challenges? Is now really the time for meditation, for looking inward? What do wedowith mindfulness? Meditation teacher Ethan Nichtern tackles these questions, taking contemporary considerations of power, identity, ethics, and confidence to new heights in this essential guide to self-discovery.

Ethan examines the Buddhist concept of the Eight Worldly Winds, the four paired opposites of praise and blame, pleasure and pain, fame and insignificance, and success and failure. Delving into these dichotomies reveals invaluable insights into our relationships with others (including teachers, friends, leaders, the disgraced, and the adored) and ourselves. With transformative meditation exercises,Confidenceempowers us to cultivate and access our innate wisdom.

CAEthan Nichternis a renowned contemporary Buddhist teacher and the author ofThe Dharma of “The Princess Bride”and the widely acclaimedThe Road Home. Ethan teaches meditation and Buddhist psychology classes and retreats online via Dharma Moon and around the US. He lives in Brooklyn with his daughter.

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“In this guide to cultivating confidence, we learn how the eight worldly winds — pleasure and pain, success and failure, fame and insignificance, praise and criticism — can lure us off course and make it difficult to find peace. Nichtern provides powerful tools to corral these dichotomies, and rather than hide from them or fight them, use them instead to remind ourselves that we are alive.”
—Lion’s Roar

“Real confidence, true confidence, comes not from a false front or a fleeting achievement; it goes way deeper than thal£!