with confidence. As meditation teacher Ethan Nichtern puts it, we’re like the inflatable people found in used car lots. The wind causes balloon men to rise and sway proudly, but if the wind dies, they collapse completely. Praise makes us float high, but criticism brings us to our knees. Nichtern’s new book, (New World Library), is grounded in the Tantric Buddhist tradition. 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
