Buddhism is basically a way of life. In his first Sermon, the Buddha spoke of the two extremes to be avoided in order to gain knowledge of the Way to Enlightenment; that of devotion to the pleasures of sense and that of self-mortification. This book is an attempt to help the Western reader tread the 'Middle Way' which leads, as the author says, 'towards that life of wisdom-love which is ever here and now and waits but our unveiling'.