Se Indryhteneahtfeldweġ biþ æfestnesse for miċlum folcum, and for oðerum biþ ūpwitigunge. Se Būddah lifde feorr ēast māran tweþusend ġeara ġēo. Ēac hē hātte Siddārða, and hē būde on heāhhealle ǣrlīċe on his līfe. His fæder wiste hē weorðe grēatne wīgan, ac þǣr wæs forewitegunge hē weorðe grēatne hāligmann. Swā his fæder heold hine bedēglad innon þǣre heāhhealle, swā þæt nāt hē nā ǣlċe sorgunge nā ādle. Ac Siddārða dēmde ānnum dagum þæt hē wiste wītan þā worulde, swā hē smēag ūte þā healle. Þǣr seah hē fēower folc: forma wæs ealdne mann, oðer wæs ādliċne mann, þridda wæs dēadne mann, fēorða wæs hāligmann. Ne seah hē ǣr nā dēaþ, nā ādlnesse, nā ealdōmnesse. For forman tīde wiste hē þās. Þonne dēmde hē āfare and weorðe ġelīc þǣm haligmenn, swā þæt ne forhtie þās þing nā lengra.
Hē fōr for lengum hwīle and sōhte hāliġmenn tǣċan him. Hīe tǣhton him miċel þing: hū stillan his mōd, hū libban mid nā drynce nā mete, hū sittan for dagum on bliss, ac ne hulpon þās him nā forhtan. Ǣġhwilċ tīde ċierde tō him his forhtnesse oððe forlǣtu. Ēac hē wæs swīðe wācne ġeworden. Æt ēa fānd mæġðe hine and ġeaf him hlāf. Þonne hē dreāmere on scipe mid hearpe sēah, þonne hīerde hē þone dreāmere cweðan: "ġif þū þā snēre nearulicostan macast, þonne bricþ þū þā ; ġif þū þā snēre slæcostan lǣtst, þonne ne mæġst þū plagan." Þā dēmde hē nā ne wiernian him selfe drync oððe hlāf, nā ne mæġ hē būan on fromfarwe. Hē nemde þisne 'Se Middenweġ".
Þā wæs hē āgēn wel, þā dēmde hē sittan under trēowe oþ hē underġiete forlǣte. Æfter þriddagum underġiet hē eall forlǣte, and nē fēlede nā forlǣte, nā forhde hē of dēaþ. Þā underġiet hē Þā Fēowerindryhtensōþ: þæt biþ þǣr forlǣte ; þæt forlǣte cymþ from grapunge ; þæt biþ þǣr weġ āfaran from forlǣte ; þæt se weġ biþ Þone Indryhteneahtfeldweġ. Hē wæs Būddah wearþ, þonne þe mǣnþ fullæfrewærnesse. Hē eode þā Þone Eahtfeldweġ tō oðerum tǣċan, þonne frēodon hīe him selfum from forlǣte ēac.
Se Eahtfeldweġ hæfþ eaht þēawas: rihtwēn, rihtinġeþanc, rihtsprǣc, rihtġebǣru, rihtġeweorc, rihthīgung, rihtmōdfulnes, rihtgadrungmōde. Hit is segene þæt ġif mann onġiete þā Fēowerindryhtensōþ and fylġe þone Eahtfeldweġ, þā mann weorðe fullost æfre wær and frēogie him selfe from ūpspringe and dēaþe and forlǣte and forhtnesse.
Þonne ġiet fullfylgaþ þone Eahtfeldweġ ymb þǣm worulde. Þǣr sindon maniġ æfestnescynn. Sāmhwilca hæfdon þēawas ilca þǣm Būddeh on his tīde ; þās hātton Ealdscōla. Sāmhwilca hæfdon oðere latoran þēawas ; þās hātton Grēatscriodu. On latoran cynne sindon Sēn and Heofonliclande. Ne fullfylgaþ oðere folk æfestnesse, ac hīe brūcaþ þā þēawas swilċe swā mōdfulnesse gōdian heoria līf.
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