The Middle Path

Then the Buddha addressed the five ascetics, "O, monks, one who has gone forth from the worldly life should not indulge in these two extremes. What are the two? There is indulgence in desirable sense objects, which is low, vulgar, worldly, ignoble, unworthy, and unprofitable and there is devotion to self-mortification, which is painful, unworthy, and unprofitable."

---The Buddha, from His First Discourse---