Middle Path

noun

, Buddhism.

the conduct of life by a religious person in such a way as to avoid the extremes of luxury and asceticism.

It was a middle path that carefully balanced the competing interests of security and law.

For Obama, finding that middle path was a difficult, torturous journey.

In seeking to balance transparency and security, Obama has pursued a middle path that, in the end, has satisfied nobody.

He struck out a middle path, which presents certain deficiencies to the advocates of either of these two systems.

On the middle path they passed a trap, a narrow horseshoe hedge of small fir-boughs, baited with the guts of a rabbit.

"Not clever of you, ladies, to find no middle path," he considered.

Notwithstanding all these exhortations, Melanchthon was still anxiously engaged in finding a middle path.

Still keeping the middle path we come to an awful yawning chasm in the earth, called La Creux Terrible.

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