{"id":4851,"date":"2017-02-03T09:50:01","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T08:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bodhicharya.org\/manyroads\/?p=4851"},"modified":"2017-02-03T09:50:01","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T08:50:01","slug":"middle-way-timothy-barrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bodhicharya.org\/manyroads\/middle-way-timothy-barrow\/","title":{"rendered":"THE MIDDLE WAY BY TIMOTHY BARROW"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4862\" src=\"https:\/\/d2wipdjmobk1g8.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/01\/22152408\/two-roads.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"353\" height=\"212\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\"><\/h4>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">I took a road<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Called middle way<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Where two arrows pointed up:<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">One for Svatantrika<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">One for Prasangika.<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">My road map said:<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Try both ways<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Don\u2019t turn off<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Head for both<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">But which one? I asked.<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Later that night<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Rose a full moon:<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Its light shone a fine thin beam<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Between two closed shutters<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Where a tiny gap has always abided.<\/h2>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000\"><span id=\"defanged7-yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485441671892_6214\">I live in Portsmouth. I go to a Bodhicharya group in Bosham, West Sussex, and have been going since it began in 1998.\u00a0I have been interested in Tibetan Buddhism for nearly 30 years, mainly within the Gelug Pa tradition and originally started\u00a0going to a\u00a0group that met in Southsea in the late 1980s. 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