There is a middle path.

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There is a middle path, O Bhikkhus, avoiding these two extremes, discovered by the Tathagata—a path which opens the eyes, and bestows understanding, which leads to peace of mind, to the higher wisdom, to full enlightenment, to Nirvana!

Source Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta 1.1-3 · 📖 Read the full passage

✨ To meditate on today

According to the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta, the Buddha’s first sermon, the middle path avoids two extremes: losing oneself in pleasures or hardening oneself in privations, and it is this path that leads to peace of mind and to awakening. Today, in a decision (eating, working, resting, spending), look for the right middle, neither too much nor too little.

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