The Middle Rainbow Path.

[Snoopy]

I've recently been studying the middle path talked about in Eastern Buddhist tradition and I am also an Alchemist myself and I am surprised this is not much talked about, but I guess it does in tie also with the Hermetic Principles themselves depending how you decided to look at it. The middle path is when a magician works in both the left and the right but in neither extreme's, an alchemist lives and works in this middle path with neutralization and transmutation to either light or dark, good or bad, and right or wrong.

Even the Buddha, Gautama said the middle path is the way after fighting ego/ the demon mara under the Bodhi tree. Can the middle path be the transmutation and creation from that not from the left or right path, which can even be seen to correlate with the left and right hemisphere of the brain, but which comes from the heart? Leaving behind logic and the imagination some would say the god mind or hive, what is left when you come from the deepest part of you that yearns when you feel for the most basic things. Something Primal and beyond even our own understanding of such a Profound energy.

Knowing neither is right or wrong but only what it is seen as, using the heart allows love the highest frequency to guide your path. Using the heart clears the mind of thought leaving you open minded and understanding from a deeper source of power or knowledge in a way to see all from every expansion or perception.

It is known that most "humans" can only perceive 0.0035% of the spectrum of light around us or in other words we are encapsuled in. This percentage most likely varies from being to being and in a way works as a way of "reality" for every being. A quote I heard not too long ago stated I say, "Sky is Blue" Someone who lives in a polluted places says, "Sky is Grey". I will have to agree with him because sky can be grey too if it gets covered by smoke. But he won't agree with me because he has never seen a blue sky. The one who knows more has to agree with the one who knows less.

Knowledge is not what makes one powerful but being able to be sympathetic and to use the knowledge we know to understand the struggle we all must endure to grow from it.

 

[HoldAll]

As far as I know, the Buddhist Middle Way is not a spatial/geometric metaphor that ties in with concepts such as the left-hand and the right-hand path, left and right brain hemispheres, etc.; rather, it denotes the middle ground between the extremes of unbridled hedonism and strict ascetic renunciation, a compromise if you will, the good old "Everything in moderation". But I agree, the heart is important if the mind is to comprehend the Path clearly. It also helps to keep things in perspective because our monkey minds are prone to building one word-castle in the air on top of the other.

 

[IllusiveOwl]

I agree with @HoldAll and their views are very similar to what I've read about the Black & white intertwined serpents for the Caduceus/ Kundalini.

A simple way to put someone in the middle way is on your right is Good (Jung calls it intelligence), your left Bad (Jung calls it Passion) and in the middle between them is you; you embrace both at once, your good keeping your bad in check, and your bad keeping your good in check, with you always detached & above both because both extremes can be disastrous when used inappropriately and are equally seductive.