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  1. Book search result icon Handful of Leaves, Volume Four AN 3:30 Upside Down | Avakujja Sutta
     … Having gotten up from that seat, he doesn’t attend to the beginning of that talk, doesn’t attend to the middle, doesn’t attend to the end. Just as when a pot is turned upside down, water poured there runs off and doesn’t stay; in the same way, there is the case where a person, having gone to a monastery, often listens … 
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  2. 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 … 
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    Contents Titlepage Contents Cover Copyright Acknowledgements Beyond All Directions Readings Lost in Quotation An All-around Eye Metta 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 Two Types of Middle The Middles of Moderation Moderation & Concentration Discernment & Moderation The Middles of Appropriate Attention Questions of Becoming Two … 
  4. Book search result icon Things as They Are The Middleness of the Middle Way
    The Middleness of the Middle Way Informal remarks after a talk, August 5, 1981. I can tell a resolute person when I see him—like our Ven. Ācariya Mun. It was intimidating just to look at him. How could the defilements not be intimidated by him? Even we were intimidated by him, and the defilements are smarter than we are, so how could they … 
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  5. Book search result icon Handful of Leaves, Volume Three SN 42:7 Teaching | Desanā Sutta
     … Having sown it there, he would sow it in the middling field. Having sown it there, he might sow it in the poor field—sandy, salty, with bad soil—or he might not. Why is that? It would at least go toward cattle fodder.” “In the same way, headman, like the excellent field are the monks & nuns to me. I teach them the Dhamma … 
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  6. Two Kinds of Middle
    This path we’re following is called the Middle Way, and it’s important that you understand that there are two kinds of “middle”: One is the midpoint on a continuum; the other is a point off the continuum entirely. And the Buddha teaches both. For example, in terms of the effort you put into the practice: You know the story of the monk … 
  7. Discerning the Middle Way
    We should always keep in mind that the Buddha’s first description of the path that he taught was the middle way between two extremes. Because it’s a middle way, it requires discernment. In fact, finding where exactly the middle lies is what exercises our discernment. If the path were simply a matter of pushing and pushing and pushing all the time or … 
  8. The Middleness of the Path
    The Middleness of the Path August 13, 2004 This path we’re following: There’s a way in which you could call it sensitivity training — getting more and more sensitive to the way the mind creates suffering for itself. As you deal with a layer of blatant suffering, you peel it away and find another, more subtle one. This is a lot of what … 
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  9. The Middle Way
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  11. The Meaning of the Middle Way
  12. The Middle Way Is Just Right
  13. Issues
     … He taught what he called the middle way. We know the most famous formulation of that in his first sermon, where he found the middle way between commitment to sensual pleasure and commitment to self-torture, saying that neither commitment was noble. He proposed the noble eightfold path as the middle way out. Now, this is not a middling way, halfway between self-torture … 
  14. The Middle Way
    The path we’re following here is the middle way. The Buddha’s first explanation of how it’s middle is that it avoids two extremes: the extreme of self-torture and the extreme of sensual indulgence. A problem with us as meditators is that we tend to veer off to the left, veer off to the right, and very rarely stay on the … 
  15. Page search result icon Things as They Are : A Collection of Talks on the Training of the Mind
    Contents Titlepage Table of Contents Cover Copyright Quotation Introduction From Ignorance to Emptiness The Tracks of the Ox The Path of Strength The Savor of the Dhamma The Middleness of the Middle Way The Simile of the Horse Principles in the Practice, Principles in the Heart The Four Frames of Reference The Work of a Contemplative The Fangs of Unawareness The Outer Space of … 
  16. In Alignment
     … You go for a treatment, and the first couple of times it’s hard to keep things in alignment after the treatment; you find yourself going back to your old ways of walking, sitting, etc. But if you keep at it long enough, you begin to realize that this new middle here, the new alignment, is actually a lot better, and you’re more … 
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  17. Between Either & Or
     … The Buddha talks about the middle path, or the middle way, from the very beginning of his teachings. What’s interesting, though, is that even though he presents this as one of the most important principles of his teachings, he doesn’t explain it very much. In his first sermon, he says that the middle way is the way that avoids the extremes of … 
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  18. Question Your Defilements
     … But if you haven’t reached that point, you don’t really know the middle of the middle way. Ajaan Maha Boowa has a nice passage where he talks about how, for most of us, the middle of the middle way is right in the middle of the pillow—not the middle of the cushion that we’re sitting on, the middle of the … 
  19. The Middle Way
     … The noble path lies in the middle way. Now, the middle way is not half way between indulgence and torture, in other words, a middling level of pain and pleasure. It lies outside of that continuum. It’s able to see pain and pleasure as tools—not as ends in and of themselves, but as things you can use. Or you can think of … 
  20. The Middle Way
     … In this way you find the pleasure of the middle way. Sometimes the descriptions of the middle way sound like you’re avoiding pain on the one hand and pleasure on the other hand, and that you’re trying to develop a neutral state in the middle. But again, remember: What is that middle way? The heart of the middle way is right concentration … 
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