Editing Middle Way (section)

==== Chan Buddhism ====
In [[Chan Buddhism]], the Middle Way describes the realization of being free of the one-sidedness of perspective that takes the extremes of any polarity as objective reality. In chapter ten of the ''[[Platform Sutra]]'', [[Huineng]] gives instructions for the teaching of the Dharma. Huineng enumerates 36 basic oppositions of consciousness and explains how the Way is free from both extremes:
{{blockquote|If one asks about the worldly, use the paired opposite of the saintly; if asking about the saintly use the paired opposite of the worldly. The mutual causation of the Way of dualities, gives birth to the meaning of the Middle Way. So, for a single question, a single pair of opposites, and for other questions the single [pair] that accords with this fashion, then you do not lose the principle.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://wonderwheels.blogspot.com/2010/09/platform-sutra-1st-section-of-chapter.html|title=Turning the Wheel of Wonder: The Platform Sutra, 1st Section of Chapter 10|first=Alan Gregory|last=Wonderwheel|date=September 12, 2010}}</ref>{{NoteTag|For example: "Suppose there is a person who asks, 'What is taken for and called darkness?' Reply and say, 'Light is the proximate cause and darkness is the contributory cause. When light is ended, then there is darkness. By the means of light, darkness manifests; by the means of darkness, light manifests. [Their] coming and going are mutually proximate causes and become the meaning of the Middle Way.[http://wonderwheels.blogspot.com/2010/09/platform-sutra-1st-section-of-chapter.html] {{citation needed|date=April 2012}} }}}}