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"Monks, these two extremes ought not to be practiced by one who has gone forth from the household life. (What are the two?) There is addiction to indulgence of sense-pleasures, which is low, coarse, the way of ordinary people, unworthy, and unprofitable; and there is addiction to self-mortification, which is painful, unworthy, and unprofitable.
"Avoiding both these extremes, the Tathagata (the Perfect One) has realized the Middle Path; it gives vision, gives knowledge, and leads to calm, to insight, to enlightenment and to Nibbana. And what is that Middle Path realized by the Tathagata...? It is the Noble Eightfold path, and nothing else, namely: right understanding, right thought, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness and right concentration."[4]
ThusDengan Demikian, forguna the attainment ofpencapaian Nibbana (Pali; Skt.Sansekerta : NirvanaNirwana), the MiddleJalan WayTengah involvesmencakup:
* Menjauhkan diri dari nafsu duniawi dan penyiksaan diri
* memupuk kesatuan tindakan "benar" yang dikenal pula dengan sebutan Jalan Utama Berunsur Delapan.
* abstaining from addictive sense-pleasures and self-mortification
* nurturing the set of "right" actions that are known as the Noble Eightfold Path.
Dalam ceramah ini, Sang Buddha mengenali Jalan Tengah sebagai suatu jalan untuk "mereka yang telah
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In this discourse (Pali: sutta), the Buddha identifies the Middle Way as a path for "one who has gone forth from the household life" (Pali: pabbajitena)[5] although lay Buddhists may center their lives on this path as well.
In regard to the Buddha's admonition against the "indulgence of sense-pleasures" (Pali: kāmesu kāma-sukha-allika), Ven. Dr. Rewata Dhamma has written:
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