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  1. Book search result icon Skill in Questions Chapter 4: Analytical Answers
     … Avoiding both of these extremes, the middle way realized by the Tathāgata—producing vision, producing knowledge—leads to calm, to direct knowledge, to self-awakening, to unbinding. “And which is the middle way realized by the Tathāgata that—producing vision, producing knowledge—leads to calm, to direct knowledge, to self-awakening, to unbinding? Precisely this noble eightfold path: right view, right resolve, right speech … 
  2. Book search result icon Skill in Questions Chapter 5: Cross-questioning: I
     … The first one doesn’t see, the middle one doesn’t see, the last one doesn’t see. In the same way, the statement of the brahmans turns out to be a row of blind men, as it were: The first one doesn’t see, the middle one doesn’t see, the last one doesn’t see. So what do you think, Bhāradvāja? This … 
  3. Book search result icon Skill in Questions Chapter 8: Questions Put Aside: II
     … I don’t think in that way. I don’t think otherwise. I don’t think not. I don’t think not not.’” — DN 1 § 153. “Well then—knowing in what way, seeing in what way, does one without delay put an end to fermentations? There is the case where an ordinary uninstructed person—who has no regard for noble ones, is not well … 
  4. Book search result icon Skill in Questions Chapter 2: The Bodhisatta’s Quest
     … His listeners had long assumed that the answer was a categorical Yes, so before teaching them the middle way the Buddha had to reframe the question by giving the analytical response that his own self cross-examination had shown to be most productive in leading to freedom. As we will see in Chapter Four, many variations on the issue of how different livelihoods should … 
  5. Book search result icon Skill in Questions Chapter 3: Categorical Answers
     … Touched by contact in various ways, he shouldn’t keep conjuring self. Stilled right within, a monk shouldn’t seek peace from another, from anything else. For one stilled right within, there’s nothing embraced, so how rejected? As in the middle of the sea it is still, with no waves upwelling, so the monk—unperturbed, still— should not swell himself anywhere.” — Sn 4 … 
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