The Middle Path

In the movie "The Little Buddha", while Siddhartha was practicing strict asceticism, he overheard two musicians speaking.

"If you tighten the string too tight it will snap, but if it is too loose it will not play."

In other words, if the string is just right in tautness, the string will produce the most beautiful beautiful sound in the world.
From these words, Siddhartha realized that his years of practicing strict asceticism is one of the extreme. He began to realized that a better way is to follow the Middle Way or similarly called the Middle Path.