Middle Way, and he says that this is then his last birth. Each of the successive births is a matter of becoming, and when one can become what is needed to achieve the Middle Path, then one is released from the continuing cycle of becoming. Clearly, this sets up a goal toward which to aspire. It is a goal that paradoxically requires the end of aspiration at the same time. Achieving this state was achieved for the Buddha by gaining knowledge of the thrice-revolved twelvefold Aryan Truths so that they were purified. He was then assured that he would be enlightened with supreme enlightenment. He knows now that the knowledge and insight have arisen within him and that he has achieved his release. This is the goal to which life tends, and it is the goal that requires mastering o
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