2) “What did the Buddha teach in particular?”

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A) He taught us to tread the Middle Way, to be neither too strict nor too slack, to go to neither the one extreme nor the other. 

Walking the Middle Way brings about conditions which are in every way conducive to study and practice, and to success in putting an end to dukkha (suffering / unsatisfactoriness).  

 

B) He taught self help. We are not to rely on fortune,fate or any celestial beings.

 

C) The Buddha taught that everything is caused and conditioned. 

D)  He taught as the principle of practice “Avoid evil, do good, purify the mind”;

 

 

E) And he reminded us that all compounded things are impermanent and perpetually flowing, and that we must be well-equipped with heedfulness.

 

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