All of us here know Buddhism is not a belief system, we know it’s a practice. To be a Buddhist, to call yourself a Buddhist, you do something. What do you do? You look to the Eightfold Path for inspiration and guidance.
The first teaching the Buddha gave was to the five ascetics with whom he had practiced austerities. In that first teaching the Buddha spoke of two extremes. The extreme of indulgence in desire and the extreme of self-denial. He said both extremes are unprofitable.
He told the ascetics he had realized a Middle Path between the two extremes and that Path is the Eightfold Path.
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