Search results for: middle way

  1. Book search result icon Straight from the Heart The Conventional Mind, the Mind Released
     … Whatever is a matter of convention follows these conventional ways. But whatever is a matter of release—of purity—cannot be made to follow those ways, because it is not the same sort of thing. To take release or a released mind and confuse or compound it with the five khandhas, which are an affair of conventional reality, is wrong. It can’t be … 
  2. Book search result icon Straight from the Heart The Marvel of the Dhamma
     … For example, the gratification that comes from being generous is moving in one way, the gratification that comes from maintaining the precepts is moving in another way, the feelings of gratification that come from the different forms of goodness are moving in their own separate ways. This is called finding gratification in skillfulness. But all of these feelings of gratification converge in the practice … 
  3. Book search result icon Straight from the Heart An Heir to the Dhamma
     … The middle way, the truth of the path, was declared absolute winner, while the truth of the origin of stress was knocked out and carried off on a stretcher, with no way of reviving ever again. I was utterly astounded and exclaimed, ‘Isn’t it amazing? Isn’t it amazing? Where has this Dhamma been hiding? How is it that the genuine Dhamma, this … 
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