THE NOBLE TRUTH OF THE PATH THAT LEADS TO THE EXTINCTION OF SUFFERING

THE TWO EXTREMES AND THE MIDDLE PATH

  TO GIVE oneself up to indulgence in sensual pleasure, the base,

common, vulgar, unholy, unprofitable; and also to give oneself up to

self-mortification, the painful, unholy, unprofitable: both these

two extremes the Perfect One has avoided, and found out the Middle

Path, which makes one both to see and to know, which leads to peace,

to discernment, to enlightenment, to Nirvana.