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1. Through the Doors to the Deathless : Awakening while Listening to the Dhamma 4 : Setting the Standards
    … Avoiding both of these extremes, the middle way realized by the Tathāgata—producing vision, producing knowledge—leads to stilling, to direct knowledge, to self-awakening, to unbinding. “And what is the middle way realized by the Tathāgata that—producing vision, producing knowledge—leads to stilling, to direct knowledge, to self-awakening, to unbinding? Precisely this noble eightfold path: right view, right resolve, right speech … 
2. Through the Doors to the Deathless : Awakening while Listening to the Dhamma 8 : Talks Inspiring Arahantship
    … Sāriputta then quizzes him further on the various ways he might define the Tathāgata, going through almost every imaginable way of trying to define the Tathāgata vis-à-vis the aggregates in the here and now. Yamaka, having seen what happens when there is no craving or clinging for the aggregates, replies in each case that he can’t define the Tathāgata in any … 
3. Through the Doors to the Deathless : Awakening while Listening to the Dhamma 5 : Talks Inspiring Stream-Entry
    … These two ways of describing what it means to be consummate in view—in terms of the four noble truths and in terms of dependent co-arising—are actually very closely connected. Their mutual relationship is explained by the suttas in two major ways. The first is that dependent co-arising can be viewed as an extended version of the four noble truths. In … 
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