The Golden Middle Way ... !!!

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Avoiding the Extremes Opens the Middle Way to Peace!

There are, friends, these two extremes, which not should be practiced by any, who has initiated purification: The hunt for sensual pleasures, which is low, vulgar, the common way of ordinary worldlings, ignoble, disadvantageous; and any practice of self-torture, which also is quitepainful, ignoble, and rather disadvantageous! Without veering towards either of these extremes, the well-gone-beyond Buddha has awakened to the Middle Way, which leads to assured vision, to direct knowledge, which leads to ease, to peace, to certain understanding, to Enlightenment, to Nibbāna. And what is that Middle Way, awakened to by the Buddha,which leads to assured vision, to direct knowledge, which leads to ease, to peace, to certain understanding, to Enlightenment, to Nibbāna ? It is this very Noble 8-fold Way: That is

 

 

 

 

Right View Right MotivationRight SpeechRight ActionRight LivelihoodRight EffortRight AwarenessRight Concentration

That is indeed the very Middle Way, awakened to by the Blessed Buddha,which leads to assured vision, to direct knowledge, which leads to ease, to certain understanding, to Peace, to Bliss, to Enlightenment, to Nibbāna...

 

Source:The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book IV [330-1]Section 42: On The 6 Senses. Rasiya: 12. http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html

 

 

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