Chūdō 中道 the Middle Path, or the Middle Way. For our tradition is was probably the first teaching of Shakyamuni Butsu. In this first teaching, it was taught as the Way between Palace luxury like pleasures and austere asceticism.
Finding this middle path between his youthful Palace life, and his severe self deprivation he inflicted on himself when he fled the palace. He left the palace in pursuit of the method to end the suffering from the inevitable... illness, old age, and death that we all must experience someday.
He fled from one extreme to another, and in the end found the middle path to be the one to live by.
Today this notion has continued to evolve. It could even be interpreted as the Central Path of Butsu-do (the way of the Awakened).
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