Gautam Buddha’s spiritual journey took a crucial turn when he transitioned from extreme asceticism to the Middle Path.
✨ This realization was not just personal but a landmark moment in spiritual thought.
🌿 Read more about his transformation & the discovery of the Middle Path:
🔗 https://thealokmohan.medium.com/gautam-buddhas-intense-austerities-and-the-discovery-of-the-middle-path-a-journey-to-c01004b1b7c9
#GautamBuddha #Spirituality #MiddlePath #Buddhism #Enlightenment #Philosophy
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1/n Jigokaraku
I just started to watch this newish anime, "Hell's Paradise/Jigokaraku" and I find it really, really interesting. Not so much for setting, or mission, or action scenss (the action is intereasting tho along with how the characters solve problems...or ignore them).
https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GJ0H7Q5ZJ/hells-paradise
The story revolves around Gabimaru, who is a top-level merciless criminal who is known as "The Hollow".
I'll explain tags I used.
Without #confidence, there can be no external progress. And without #humility, there can be no internal progress.
Is there a contradiction at the core of the human condition? Maybe. Well OK, yes! But then, bing humans, we are inherently driven to circumvent contradictions. But how? #Balance, of course.
#Buddha (563-400 BCE)—who proclaimed, in no uncertain terms, that he was not a "god" but a philosopher, a teacher—taught that "majjhimā paṭipadā" (a balanced #MiddlePath in Pāli) is more often than not the optimal path.
Following the Middle Path is not to be confused with being a fence-sitter or being a middling, however. An adherent of the Middle Path is philosophically resolute to hold a fair, balanced perspective. This, then, is the foundation of #logic.
Quite the age of #Extremism from politics to religion, why people gotta take it too far from the #MiddlePath? What’s wrong with being #neutral ? Too boring? Lol
Huh. #TIL that I have a few #Epicurean #EthicalBeliefs
I never really thought of it as #Moderate or #MiddlePath #Hedonism until now
#TLDR
#Epicurus believed that the #GreatestGood
was to seek #modest #sustainable #pleasure
in the form of a state of #ataraxia (tranquility
and freedom from fear) and #aponia (the
absence of bodily pain) through knowledge of
the workings of the world and limiting desires.
I prefer: "All things in moderation, including #moderation "
Only goal in life should be to remain in present #middlepath #breath #life
