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The Central Path, Middle Way or Middle Path (Pali: Majjhimāpaṭipadā; Sanskrit: Madhyamāpratipad; Tibetan: དབུ་མའི་ལམ། Umélam; Vietnamese: Trung đạo; Thai: มัชฌิมา) is the term that Gautama Buddha used to describe the character of the Noble Eightfold Path he discovered that leads to liberation.
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Is asceticism beneficial for attainments?
The Buddha advises that the middle way be taken.
The discussion around the middle way sounds to me like a "it is not needed to be so krass" type view on asceticism.
But is it still ...
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Killing Buddha?
I read this:
In Zen, it's generally understood that "When you meet the Buddha, kill
him" refers to "killing" a Buddha you perceive as separate from
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Middle path of buddha
Buddha used to teach always follow middle path. Don't you think life is not middle . For example he slept for only 2 hours and many others story which is extreme in some sense.
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Why does the Buddha promote the Middle Way for other positions, but does not apply it for his own?
So I've been thinking about how in scripture, Buddha often refers to certain views as the "extremes". A famous example is the eternalists (eternal soul and afterlife) vs the annihilationists ...
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Role of mortification and ascetism in buddhism
I am recently observing the effects of "asceticism" or in my case, simply reducing food/taste related pleasures. I know the Middle Way in Buddhism advocates avoiding the both the extremes of ...
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Arguments against ascetism
Buddhism is often said to prescribe a middle way - avoiding ascetism on one hand, and avoiding indulging in sense pleasures on the other.
What are some of the arguments that Buddhism offers against ...
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Right situation for Teaching Dhamma or giving advice
I often find that in real life people I know are doing things in a "wrong" way. By this I not only mean profound things related to Dhamma, but also small everyday things. Because of these ...
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How to apply Eight-fold path[Aaryashtangika marga] to each virtue action as a Vipassana Meditation? [duplicate]
How to apply eight fold path to the wholesome act as meditation of three marks of existence (Pali: tilakkha?a) of all existence and beings, namely impermanence (aniccā), non-self (anattā) and ...
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What does Buddhism teach about abusive parents?
My husband’s parents are very abusive now and in the past. Recently they’ve started bringing me into the mix, and so my husband decided to cut them out of our lives. They still text me to curse our ...
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Moggaliputta-tissa Kathavatthu
Anyone knows where I can find an english translation of Moggaliputta’s work “Kathavatthu” (The Points of Controversy) where he somehow “saved” the Buddha’s message of the middle way contained in the ...
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Does the middle way apply to objects as well as the skandhas?
Does the middle way -- between annihilationism and eternalism -- apply to objects? Like a mountain, will it either exist forever or be destroyed, or is it too the middle way?
The expression “middle ...
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Who propounded "All doesn't exist" in the Buddha's time?
SN 12.15 says,
'Everything exists': That is one extreme. 'Everything doesn't exist': That is a second extreme. Avoiding these two extremes, the Tathagata teaches the Dhamma via the middle
We know ...
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If something is relatively and ultimately correct can it still be false in the center?
If something is both relatively and ultimately correct can it still be false in the center? I'm looking for a "yes" from any extant or historical tradition.
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Psychology of 'flow'
I guess (perhaps I'm wrong) that humans and life in general tend toward homeostatis -- i.e. wanting to stay the same as before -- and not just physically but socially and mentally too, e.g. to keep ...
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Going to extremes?
In this answer, I wrote a little addendum that picks on a little tick that I find common amongst all kinds of Buddhists. That moderation is a virtue in and of itself without regard to what the object ...
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