The middle-ground, the middle-path? It all
makes so much sense in light of how I work this deal. I was once one of those
people who would say, pshaw! To stand in the middle of the road is to stand
only to obstruct. After all, traffic in either lane, is at least going
somewhere. I have come to understand that we are talking about something else
when we speak in spiritual terms. Avoiding extremes seems to be the best place
to travel. Always skirting the edges and testing the limits has its value but
when it comes to life and death there is no room for error. Of course, there
would be no enlightened paths if someone didn’t go out on a limb… if Buddha or
Christ didn’t take the initiative to break away from tradition, we wouldn’t be
able to profit from the vision of those prophets. Would there be an AA at all
if Bill W. didn’t take what he found in the
The middle path is about something entirely
different than what I thought. Moderation of temperament and becoming
even-keeled in adversity takes training and discipline. Very few are able to
achieve this balance in all things and even fewer are born with it… keeping it
all through their lives. But a life driven by extremes… careening from one to
another… is a reckless adventure that causes untold suffering.
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