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   From: kimmerian@fastmail.fm   
      
   halfawake :   
      
   > I'm talking about the way one lives while following the path, not your   
      
        You're misdefining the Middle Way by claiming it's located   
   "between attachment to life and aversion to life."  The   
   Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta locates it in between two practices   
   -- devotion to sensual pleasure and devotion to   
   self-affliction -- while making it one of the Four Noble Truths.   
   Highly meaningful since they begin by describing life as   
   suffering, they go on to place the source of the problem in the   
   craving that leads to rebirth, and they see the solution in   
   its end.  The Middle Way is a means to that end and thus a path   
   away from worldly life.   
      
   -- Catawumpus   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)