Avoiding both these extremes, [indulgence of sense pleasures, devotion to self-mortification] the Tathagata has realized the Middle Path: it gives vision, it gives knowledge, and it leads to calm, to insight, to enlightenment, to Nirvana.
First Sermon of the Buddha
Samyutta-nikāya [Kindred Sayings] pt. 56, p. 11
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