The Middle Road

I have finally started reading a book called Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda. It is probably one of the top 10 spiritual texts ever written. His work brought yoga to the West.

Apparently, even one month after he died, Yogananda's body showed no signs of decay. An indescribably conscious or enlightened being.

Anyway, in the book he talks about the middle road. His father, who having recently recieved a large and unexpected windfall and showing no signs of happiness, said to Yogananda's apparently perplexed younger brother:

'The one who pursues the road of evenmindedness is neither jubilant with gain nor depressed by loss. He knows that man arrives penniless in this world and departs without a single rupee'.

So, that is my sentiment for today. To the millions of buddhists and anyone who seeks the middle way...may you find it and relish in, not its bordeom, but its liberation.