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  1. Book search result icon Beyond All Directions The Middles of the Middle Way
    The Middles of the Middle Way In his very first sermon, the Buddha introduced his path of practice as a middle way that avoids two extremes: a commitment to sensual pleasures related to sensual desires, and a commitment to self-affliction. On the surface, this statement makes the path sound like a middling way, at a bland halfway point on the continuum between pleasure … 
  2. Book search result icon Beyond All Directions
    The fifth collection of essays. Includes: Beyond All Directions, Lost in Quotation, An All-around Eye, Mettā Means Goodwill, On Denying Defilement, Virtue Without Attachment, The Limits of the Unlimited Attitudes, The Essence of the Dhamma, The Middles of the Middle Way, and The Arrows of Thinking.
  3. Book search result icon Beyond All Directions Beyond All Directions
     … for the protection of those within and to ward off those without; in the same way, the disciple of the noble ones has heard much, has retained what he has heard, has stored what he has heard. Whatever teachings are admirable in the beginning, admirable in the middle, admirable in the end, that—in their meaning & expression—proclaim the holy life that is entirely … 
  4. Book search result icon Beyond All Directions An All-around Eye
     … That’s one way you have to look for a balance so that contentment and being unburdensome follow the middle way of moderation. Another set of balancing qualities are contentment on the one hand, and shedding pride and being modest on the other. Some people like to make a show of how frugal they are. This, the Buddha said, is the danger of developing … 
  5. Book search result icon Beyond All Directions Metta Means Goodwill
     … after themselves with ease.” That way they can have the happiness of independence and self-reliance. Another set of metta phrases is in the Karaṇīya Metta Sutta. They start out with a simple wish for happiness: Happy, at rest, may all beings be happy at heart. Whatever beings there may be, weak or strong, without exception, long, large, middling, short, subtle, blatant, seen & unseen … 
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