Middle Way
The Central Path, Middle Way or Middle Path (Pali: Majjhimāpaṭipadā; Sanskrit: Madhyamāpratipad; Tibetan: དབུ་མའི་ལམ། Umélam; Vietnamese: Trung đạo; Thai: มัชฌิมาปฏิปทา) is the term that Gautama Buddha used to describe the character of the Noble Eightfold Path he discovered that leads to liberation.
Theravada
In the Pāli Canon of Theravada Buddhism, the expression Middle Way is used by the Buddha in his first discourse, the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta, to describe the Noble Eightfold Path as the way to achieve nibbana instead of employing extremes of austerities and sensual indulgence. Later Pali literature has also used the phrase Middle Way to refer to the Buddha's teaching of dependent origination as a view between the extremes of eternalism [ ?] and annihilationism.[ ? ]
Mahayana Buddhism
In Mahayana Buddhism, the Middle Way refers to the insight into śūnyatā "emptiness" that transcends the extremes of existence and non-existence, the two truths doctrine.
Noble Eightfold Path
Middle way (disambiguation)
Middle Way is the term that Siddhartha Gautama used to describe the character of the path he discovered that leads to liberation.
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Middle Way
by: The Suicide MachinesThe road of life is paved with extreames
Broken hearts and shattered dreams
Reaching out for things that aren't real
Let them dictate the way we feel
Don't you know - It's your best intrest to go with the flow
Can you see - It's what we both need for you and me
I'm taking the middle way - I'm taking the middle way
I don't care what you say - I'm taking the middle way
Spin the wheel where does it stop
Around and round till you've had enough
If I define cause and effect
Your choice is liberty or death
Don't you know - It's your best intrest to go with the flow
Can you see - It's what we both need for you and me
I'm taking the middle way - I'm taking the middle way
I don't care what you say - I'm taking the middle way
What if I told you that the world was gonna end tomorrow
Would you re-evaluate - Try to moderate - Get some insight
And try to understand your world - Your world
So many ways in which things transpire
We search for a way to put out the fire
Like a kid with matches in hand
A metaphor for the flames that I fan
Don't you know - It's your best intrest to go with the flow
Can you see - It's what we both need for you and me
I'm taking the middle way - I'm taking the middle way
I don't care what you say - I'm taking the middle way
I'm taking the middle way - I'm taking the middle way
I don't care what you say - I'm taking the middle way