Miracle of The Middle Path

The day before Buddha attained enlightenment, he had come to realize the meaning of the Middle Path principle which is to keep oneself away from extreme attachment to pleasure and resentment, to stay balanced between happiness and sadness. When you are in the middle, you are not tied to anything. That is called “equanimity” in Buddhism. This universal truth is Buddha’s most important discovery. This is how to stay beyond the world and the powerful attraction energy of the Universe.  

What the Buddha had discovered was not a miracle, but simply the Law of Energy that is hidden from humans. Therefore, humans fail to understand the Law of Freedom from attachment. When the feeling of attraction or repulsion arises, it triggers a reaction of plus and minus energy, leading to an imbalanced energy field. In order to avoid being trapped in this push-and-pull cycle, you must keep your mind “neutral” and free of the ripples of emotions. Whatever comes to your mind, just know.

Equanimity is, therefore, detachment from both satisfaction and dissatisfaction. It is not that you are prohibited from taking an action, You just have to treat your mind as if it were a water drop on the lotus leaf.

But it is the discoverer of the law himself, the Buddha, who is the miracle. Such is revealed through his birth which took place in the middle of the year. In the Lunar Calendar, the period is the 15th day of the 6th waxing moon. Moreover, he also attained enlinghtenment and reached Nirvana on the same day in different  years.

The advent of Gautama Buddha is to show us what the Middle Path truly means. It is the revelation of the Buddha’s supreme holiness that nothing can impede. The circumstance is exclusively reserved for those who will become Buddha. It is a miracle beyond miracle that can be achieved only after incalculable lifetimes of sacrifices for the sole purpose of pulling all beings from the Cycle of Birth and Death, and nothing else.