- MIDL = Meditation In Daily Life
- The Middle Way = MIDL is also a play on words that points towards the middle balance or ‘Middle Way’ (MIDL Way) as revealed in the first talk given by the Buddha (SN 56:11).
The MIDL Meditation System is a systematic Buddhist insight meditation practice based on the Satipatthana Sutta, that has been designed for daily life. The MIDL meditator seeks to find the middle path by neither suppressing or avoiding any experience but rather by softening into and unifying within the experience itself. This path leads to the fading of attraction and aversion towards pleasant and unpleasant feeling and a seamless integration of meditation into daily life.
The Buddha offered different meditative paths dependent on whom he was instructing, with all of them following the formula of:
- Sila (harmony)
- Samadhi (unification)
- Panna (wisdom).
Because MIDL is concerned with meditating within daily life, it contains two different paths of entry which will adapt to your life situation. Both Meditative Path 1 and Path 2 develop sila, samadhi and panna in this order. Neither path is better than the other, they just contain different entry points that both bring maturity to the Noble Eightfold Path.
