The story says that a little girl offered Gautama a bowl of rice. Once he accepted it and ate, he realized that the extreme behavior he was living out did not point towards the direction of inner liberation. He learned that living under harsh physical conditions wasn’t the answer to the spiritual release he set out for. After this realization, Gautama urged others to follow a path of balance instead of the one he painted out through extremities – he named this path of life the Middle Way.
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