“Intellectuals tend to spend too much of their valuable time in study, critical analysis and debate. They usually have little or no time for practice.”

—  K. Sri Dhammananda Maha Thera

"Is Buddhism a Theory of a Philosophy?"
What Buddhists Believe (1993)

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