Wednesday, June 29, 2011

The Middle

Sometimes it seems like the middle is a very good place to be. Other times, the middle is that awful place you get stuck.


Sometimes, in an argument or disagreement, the middle means a compromise. Other times, the middle is that awful place you get stuck, an argument you didn’t want to even be involved in.

Sometimes, when you are playing fast triplets with lots of string crossings, the middle of the bow is a very good place to be. Other times, the middle is that awful place you get stuck, when you’re not really sure what kind of articulation you are supposed to be doing.

Sometimes, the middle is the goal, the bullseye of a target. Other times, the middle is that awful place you get stuck, when you didn’t lose the race, yet you didn’t win.

Sometimes, the middle means maximizing space and opportunity. Other times, the middle is that awful place you get stuck, when you don’t know which opportunity to take.

Sometimes, the middle means lots of friends and fun. Other times, the middle is that awful place you get stuck, where you have to conform to fit in and don’t know who you can trust.

Sometimes the middle means balance, a very good state to be in. Other times, the middle is that awful place you get stuck—in mediocrity.


How can the middle be sometimes so right, yet other times so wrong?

Maybe the middle is not an answer of where to be but rather a question of how to live.

How to know when the middle is the place to be?

How do you use the middle?

1 comment:

  1. There is no correct answer for life.

    Do it by our heart what you have feel good
    what is most suitable and better to us.

    But, We may fear of the choice we have chosen.
    So, In buddism, we also have 5 rules for behaving for
    the good safe life

    the Five Precepts;rules of morality
    1.To abstain from taking life
    2.To abstain from taking what is not given
    3.To abstain from sexual misconduct
    4.To abstain from false speech
    5.To abstain from intoxicants causing heedlessness

    And,
    In buddism, also have rules of
    middle practice as you have questioned.

    We called,
    Eightfold Noble Path.
    1.Right understanding
    2 Right thought
    3.Right speech
    4.Right action
    5.Right method of securing a livelihood
    6.Right exertion
    7.Right mindfulness
    8.Right concentration

    For buddism, we trust that
    if we train into these rules, then we almost
    get into the correct middle path.

    So, this is how I use the middle.
    If it's too hard to behave, then you just not to
    break the rules of morality.

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