Book Learning – News Learning

Book learning: knowledge acquired by reading books, as distinguished from that obtained through observation and experience.

The result of reading too many books and commentaries is confusion and doubt. Been there, done that. We are reading about something rather than actually experiencing for ourselves. Book learning creates disjointed thinking, lacking a coherent sequence or connection, because the authors have various views from the books/news that they’ve read. Too many ingredients in the soup nullifies the taste.

Once we are fixated, disconnected thinking occurs and this obscures pure experience.
The evil in the world hides reality.

Clarity comes from direct recognition without fixations.
Obscuration comes from attachment and is full of fixations.
Evil obsesses.

Evil is stupid morality. Why? Because the evil in us thinks that evil people are just evil, without acknowledging that, before violence occurs, there has to be an idea introduced. And where did the ideas come from? A book is a generalisation – it is not direct experience.