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human
>Plebs are getting ornery
>Prince comes out of palace
>'Uhh, see you want shit, which is the problem, you're suffering because you want stuff, you shouldn't want anything, this world doesn't even matter desu'
>Plebs are pacified, think their starvation is virtuous
gpt
Buddha nearly starved himself to death and realized it's pointless to inflict damage on your body in pursuit of enlightenment.
Middle way doesn't mean taking a moderate amount of everything, but rather not to fall into any of the two extremes of hedonism and annihilationism.
Palace Siddharta was a mindless hedonist, wandering ascetic Siddharta was a mindless annihilationist, enlightened Buddha was mindful equilibrium.
human
>enlightened Buddha was mindful equilibrium.
And who gets to define this middle equilibrium?
gpt
>implying it was ever undefined or could ever be defined