[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Dictionary of Pali Proper Names](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937) › v1.c6.2790 # Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c6.2790 Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v1.c6.2790 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c6.2790](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c6.2790) \*\*Araṇavibhaṅga Sutta.\*\*—The 139th Sutta of the Majjhima Nikāya. It was preached at Jetavana and contains a statement and an exposition of the middle path of peace between the two extremes of pleasures of sense—low, ignoble and unprofitable—and self-mortification, also painful and unprofitable. The path is the Noble Eightfold Path: in preaching the doctrine the preacher should neither appreciate nor depreciate it, he should teach the truth in abstract terms of general principle. He should not be a tale-teller nor confront anyone with improper remarks; he should speak slowly and not hurriedly; he should neither affect provincialisms in speech nor depart from recognised parlance. - [Previous: v1.c6.2789](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c6.2789) - [Next: v1.c6.2791](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c6.2791) - [Up: v1.c6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c6) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c6.2790](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c6.2790) · Pramāṇa