What is the Middle Path *between*?
The Buddhist Middle Path is reality. That is between our current tendency to Nihilify or to Reify our “fundamental” orientation toward reality. So whether god exists or not, the existence of external objects and questions of truth come second place in most peoples minds to – I don’t want to go in to work today it’s rubbish (nihilify – it wasn’t/isn’t ALWAYS rubbish) or I love her/him, they are beautiful (reify – they aren’t always/going to be beautiful). Thus Buddha’s exhortation – when in a burning house exactly the wrong thing to do is to try to establish who started the fire, establish for what reason and to waste time cursing and hating them for it. Denying or establishing anything is exactly what the truth isn’t!
