There is a teaching in Buddhism called “the eight worldly winds”. The eight wordly winds refer to: praise and blame, success and failure, pleasure and pain, and fame and disrepute.
I don’t know how faithful that verbiage is to the original ancient Indian text it was translated from. But I always found the term “wordly winds” really helpful and evocative. When I find myself chasing praise or reputation, if I can recall that phrase it immediately reminds me that these things are like the wind blowing around and changing direction from day to day. So it’s foolish to worry about them too much or to try and control them, and it reminds me that I should focus on more important things.
There is a teaching in Buddhism called “the eight worldly winds”. The eight wordly winds refer to: praise and blame, success and failure, pleasure and pain, and fame and disrepute.
I don’t know how faithful that verbiage is to the original ancient Indian text it was translated from. But I always found the term “wordly winds” really helpful and evocative. When I find myself chasing praise or reputation, if I can recall that phrase it immediately reminds me that these things are like the wind blowing around and changing direction from day to day. So it’s foolish to worry about them too much or to try and control them, and it reminds me that I should focus on more important things.