Parables of the Middle Way

Parables of the Middle Way combines fiction and commentary to provide various imaginative ways into the core themes of Middle Way Philosophy already developed in Robert M Elliss other books. The stories are either original or adapted from a range of sources: philosophical Buddhist and Christian. They include the story of a ship caught in a strait between two intractably opposed ports an inside-out version of Platos cave a set of variations of the Good Samaritan suggesting all the other ways of doing good and the early life of the Buddha transposed to eighteenth century England. Robert M. Ellis is the founder of the Middle Way Society author of Migglism and of the Middle Way Philosophy series. He has a Ph.D. in Philosophy as well as a long-standing interest in fiction and is devoted to developing new and more adequate ways of thinking that can be applied in practice.