The Middle Way or Middle Path (Pali: majjhimā paṭipadā; Sanskrit: madhyamā-pratipad) is the term that Siddhartha Gautama used to describe the character of the path he discovered that leads to liberation.
In Mahayana Buddhism, the Middle Way refers to the insight into emptiness that transcends opposite statements about existence.
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