The Eight Worldly Concerns
Attachment… to gain, pleasure, praise and fame.
Aversion… to loss, pain, blame and bad reputation.
In a relative world we want to do the right thing, be successful, use our intelligence, and be a decent human being. This is fair enough: we certainly don’t want to cause harm to others, or to ourselves.
But this is samsara, and we become too involved. From a spiritual point of view, this involvement involves attachment and aversion based on ignorance. We have to decide what is beneficial, and then let go. This is a very subtle business, and a personal dilemma.
All that glitters is not gold.
All that smells is not without recognition.
When attachment and aversion are present
everything gets very sticky…sticky…sticky…!?
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BUDDHA IN THE MUD is a blog - a living book based on the Dzogchen teachings. Our teacher is life, and life is karma. We are all Buddhas in the mud of concepts. 
His Holiness the Dalai Lama used to take clocks apart and mend them. One of my Tibetan teachers used to make violins and turn wooden eggs on a lathe. No one said we can’t enjoy what we do! There is actually a path of sensual pleasure, but we have to drop any attachment, and not cause harm.