Just in case some of you don't know what the eight worldly dhammas are, they are praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and pain, and fame and obscurity. So what this person is saying is when they see the hindrance of desire, then they're noting that they're seeking pleasure. Understanding the deeper reason that we have these hindrances, that is, the seeking for praise, gain, pleasure and pain, and trying to avoid blame, loss, pain, and obscurity, is a very valuable practice. Actually it helps us see what the ego is seeking, so it allows us to see much more deeply into the practice and in a way to see what view is causing us to have these hindrances.
The eight worldly conditions are something that we encourage all of you to start seeing in your practice. The seeking for pleasure and desire is something that motivates a lot of us, and the seeking for praise and a wish not to get blame is very strong one in most of us also. So by actually seeing more deeply into what eight worldly dhamma we're seeking, we can see much more deeply into our particular character. If you find that you're continually seeing that you're not wanting blame and that's the cause of your aversion, it's very helpful to you, because then you're much more aware in these situations and see the ego grasping, seeing our particular wish for a particular self image. A lot of us don't like to have blame, loss, pain and obscurity. It's the motivation of the ego, the self-image, that is seeking to avoid these things in order to feel worthy of ourselves.
So yes, I believe it's a very valuable practice and later on in the retreat we're planning to actually have a meditation concerning praise and blame, etc. and how we can look more deeply into these so that we can be less attached to wanting one and not wanting the other.