Confidence: holding your seat through life's eight worldly winds

Introduction: Hold Your Seat

Part I. The Eight Worldly Winds: 1. Running the Gauntlet of Hope and Fear

2. Pleasure and Pain: Licking Honey from a Razor Blade

3. Praise and Blame: Everyone's a Critic

4. Influence and Insignificance: Avoiding the Second Death

5. Success and Failure: The Misery of Comparative Mind

Part II. The Four Powers of Confidence: 6. The Power of Compassion

7. The Power of Lineage

8. The Power of Awareness

9. The Power of Windhorse

Conclusion: The Question of Confidence

Acknowledgments

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