Spiritual
The path of Buddhism is often called The Middle Way, as it’s midway between indulging in sense desires and renouncing them. The Buddha essentially said you can eat and feel good, but if you want to be liberated from suffering you can’t be attached to eating and feeling good.
Jude Star • How To Explore Meditation: A Primer
The Buddhist concept of the “middle way,” or “not too tight, not too loose,” is the ideal guide.
Andrew Holecek • Dream Yoga: Illuminating Your Life Through Lucid Dreaming and the Tibetan Yogas of Sleep
Over the next several days, the truth emerged to Siddhartha—that release from suffering comes not from renunciation of the things of the world, but from release from attachment to those things. A Middle Way shunned both ascetic extremism and sensuous indulgence, because both are attachments and thus lead to dissatisfaction. At the moment of this re
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Learning:
The Middle Way asks us not to escape desire, but to be in relationship with it. Not to cling or reject, but to stay present as it rises, peaks, and fades. That’s where freedom lives, in how we hold the tension, not how we resolve it.
The Middle Way asks us not to escape desire, but to be in relationship with it. Not to cling or reject, but to stay present as it rises, peaks, and fades. That’s where freedom lives, in how we hold the tension, not how we resolve it.
"! Gabriel Perera" (4)
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