During the final five years of the saint Luangpor Teean's life, his doctor Vatana Supromajakr and her colleagues who cared for him interviewed him to clarify their doubts and recorded his words. Here is a website on his recorded words which will be helpful for Buddhist laymen to clarify their doubts if any. For me, the highlight of his recorded words was this statement of his...
The middle way is still driving on the wrong side of the road; it still permits the killing of the fox for pleasure. One cannot kill half a fox. Like Monty Python parrot, a fox torn apart by hounds remains dead, deceased and off its perch for ever. Before the fox has been dispatched - sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly - it will have suffered the agonies of the pursuit by animals four times its size and four times its strength. The middle way is a compromise that still seriously compromises the welfare of the fox. Lyndon Harrison, Baron Harrison