(no subject)
"Let me tell you about the middle path. Dressing in rough and dirty garments, letting your hair grow matted, abstaining from eating meat or fish, does not cleanse the one who is deluded. Mortifying the flesh through excessive hardship does not lead to a triumph over the senses. All self-inflicted suffering is useless as long as the feeling of self is dominant."
"You should lose your involvement with yourself and the eat and drink naturally, according to the needs of your body. Attachment to your appetites-whether you deprive or indulge them-can lead to slavery, but satisfying the needs of daily life is not wrong. Indeed, to keep a body in good health is a duty, for otherwise the mind will not stay strong and clear."
"This is the middle path"
Discourse II
"It is hard to be born as a human being and hard to live the life of one. It is even harder to hear of the path and harder still to awake, to rise, and follow."
"Yet the teaching is simple: 'Cease to do evil, learn to do good. And purify your mind.'"
"Hurt none by word or deed. Be moderate in your eating. Live in inner solitude. And seek the deepest consciousness."
"This is the teaching."
Dhammapada
"You should lose your involvement with yourself and the eat and drink naturally, according to the needs of your body. Attachment to your appetites-whether you deprive or indulge them-can lead to slavery, but satisfying the needs of daily life is not wrong. Indeed, to keep a body in good health is a duty, for otherwise the mind will not stay strong and clear."
"This is the middle path"
Discourse II
"It is hard to be born as a human being and hard to live the life of one. It is even harder to hear of the path and harder still to awake, to rise, and follow."
"Yet the teaching is simple: 'Cease to do evil, learn to do good. And purify your mind.'"
"Hurt none by word or deed. Be moderate in your eating. Live in inner solitude. And seek the deepest consciousness."
"This is the teaching."
Dhammapada