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**TodeImmabbedo** · 08-20-2011, 10:40 AM

Yeah, I think it's a good idea to not put all your eggs in one basket, generally. Study and practice go together for me. Either one without the other, and things start to get out of kilter, in my experience.

For me, studying and applying reasoning to the suttas has been immensely helpful in separating out what's actually in the suttas from all the sayings falsely attributed to the Buddha. It also helps avoid pessimism, nihilism, eternalism, etc, and lots of other pitfalls. BUT, if all I did was read and analyze them in an academic way, without applying them to my behavior, that would be mostly a waste of time.

08-20-2011, 10:40 AM	#6
TodeImmabbedo Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 487 Senior Member	Yeah, I think it's a good idea to not put all your eggs in one basket, generally. Study and practice go together for me. Either one without the other, and things start to get out of kilter, in my experience. For me, studying and applying reasoning to the suttas has been immensely helpful in separating out what's actually in the suttas from all the sayings falsely attributed to the Buddha. It also helps avoid pessimism, nihilism, eternalism, etc, and lots of other pitfalls. BUT, if all I did was read and analyze them in an academic way, without applying them to my behavior, that would be mostly a waste of time.
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