Question

Why eightfold path to the buddha is known as middle path?

Answer 1

Eight-fold path of the buddha is known as the 'Middle Path' because it

A. doesnot attach too much importance to knowledge and conduct

B. attaches equal importance to knowledge and conduct

C. avoids self-indulgence as well as self-immolation

D. is open to the clergy and the laity

Answer 2

Answer:

In the Sutta, the Buddha describes the Noble Eightfold Path as the middle way of moderation, between the extremes of sensual indulgence and self-mortification. Buddhist Monks ought not to be practiced these two extremes being the ones who has gone forth from the household life.

Explanation:

Further readings:

Buddhism developed out of Hinduism in the sixth century B.C. For a Buddhist salvation is reaching Nirvana. Nirvana is a transcendental, blissful, spiritual state of nothingness--you become a Buddha.

The Noble Eightfold Path is:

1. Right Understanding: accepting the Four Noble Truths.

1. The existence of suffering;
2. the cause of suffering;
3. the end of suffering;
4. and the end of pain.

2. Right Resolve: renounce the pleasures of the body. Change your lifestyle so that you harm no living creatures and have kind thoughts for everyone.

3. Right Speech: do not gossip, lie or slander anyone.

4. Right Action: do not kill, steal or engage in an unlawful sexual act.

5. Right Occupation (Right Livelihood): avoid working at any job that could harm someone.

6. Right Effort: heroically work to eliminate evil from your life. Through your own effort develop good conduct and a clean mind.

7. Right Contemplation: make your self aware of your deeds, words and thoughts so that you can be free of desire and sorrow.

8. Right Meditation: train your mind to focus on a single object without wavering so as to develop a calm mind capable of concentration.

Following the Noble Eightfold Path requires that a person do the above eight things. Nirvana (Salvation) is through what a Buddhist does. It is through human works, what a person does with his life.

Three characteristics of all existence:

In Buddhism, the three marks of existence are three characteristics of all existence and beings, namely impermanence (aniccā), unsatisfactoriness or suffering (dukkha), and non-self (anattā).