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**ZonaPutaX** · 06-07-2011, 11:09 PM

@daverupa - I prefer reading commentaries, explanations and elaboration on the various discourses of the Nikayas rather than reading the actual discourses itself. It is just a personal preference I guess.

With respect, I find this approach completely boggling ! The logical way to do it would be to first read the suttas and then afterwards the commentaries on them. A commentary could have been written by someone totally deluded about the meaning of a sutta ....how would you know if you hadn't read it? You'd then also be deluded too !.....and its this kind of approach that over time, loses all the meaning and impact of the Buddha's teachings.

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06-07-2011, 11:09 PM	#39
ZonaPutaX Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 501 Senior Member	@daverupa - I prefer reading commentaries, explanations and elaboration on the various discourses of the Nikayas rather than reading the actual discourses itself. It is just a personal preference I guess. With respect, I find this approach completely boggling ! The logical way to do it would be to first read the suttas and then afterwards the commentaries on them. A commentary could have been written by someone totally deluded about the meaning of a sutta ....how would you know if you hadn't read it? You'd then also be deluded too !.....and its this kind of approach that over time, loses all the meaning and impact of the Buddha's teachings. .
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