There are two extremes that ought not to be cultivated by one who Has gone forth. What two? There is devotion to pursuit of pleasure in sensual desires, which is low, coarse, vulgar, ignoble and harmful; and there is devotio
n to self-mortification, which is painful, ignoble and harmful. The middle way discovered by a Buddha avoids both extremes; it gives vision and understanding, and lead to peace, to direct knowledge, to enlightenment, to nibbana. And what is the middle way? It is the Noble Eightfold Path.
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