八はち風ふう

noun

eight winds (Buddhism)

In Buddhism, the eight worldly conditions that agitate the mind: prosperity, decline, disgrace, honor, praise, censure, suffering, and pleasure. Often encountered in the phrase 八風吹けども動ぜず (unmoved by the eight winds).

• 仏ぶっ教きょうでは、八はち風ふうに心こころを乱みだされないことが悟さとりへの道みちとされる。

  In Buddhism, not being disturbed by the eight winds is considered the path to enlightenment.

noun

winds from eight directions

A literal or poetic reference to winds blowing from the eight cardinal and intercardinal directions. Rare outside classical or literary contexts.

• 古ふるい和わ歌かには、八はち風ふうが吹ふきすさぶ情じょう景けいが詠よまれることがある。

  In old waka poems, scenes of the eight winds blowing fiercely are sometimes composed.