And that which is devoted to self-affliction, painful, ignoble, unprofitable. Avoiding both of these extremes, the middle way leads to calm, to direct knowledge, to self-awakening, to unbinding. So this is considered to be Buddha's first reference to the notion of the middle way. And what's interesting here, he's saying things that are consistent with many of the Hindu ascetics of the time. That you shouldn't devote yourself to sensual pleasure with reference to sensual objects, base, vulgar, common, ignoble. But he's also saying that you shouldn't go the other extreme either. You shouldn't devote yourself to self-affliction, painful, ignoble, unprofitable.