Atalodahama

Atalodahama is the Buddha’s teaching of eight unavoidable factors in the world - gain loss neglect and attention insult praise pleasure and pain. It is made of four positive and four negative features. The world tends to delight in positive features while get depressed in negative features. The Buddha teaches how to be indifferent in both positive and negative elements one has to face in daily life. Venerable Pagngnananda Thera elucidates the Buddhist teachings analysing the middle path in living amid the eight unavoidable factors. It is easy to be pleased beyond limits when one experiences gain attention praise and pleasure. But too much pleasure in them leads to agony in the end. The Buddha’s advice is to stay indifferent in both positive and negative outcomes.