Katie Yosha Scott-Childress, Senior Lay Student - ZCNYC - 9/28/25 - The Eight Worldly Conditions are core teachings of the Buddha and provide us with some guidelines in working with the habitual energies of gain and loss, fame and disrepute, praise and blame, and pleasure and pain. Senior lay student Yosha offers ways of taking up our resistances and clinging as ways to enter a newer freedom through a close study of these habits of mind.