"""Use your own brain. After all any book is just a list of thoughts of another guy, who might be wrong."""
"""The text above is preface to a little security book I write for newbie hackers and web developers."""
I chuckled.
"""The text above is preface to a little security book I write for newbie hackers and web developers."""
I chuckled.
Faith and dogma exist wherever people have outsourced their ability to think. 'Buddhists' do this too, just as some adherents to other faiths do too.
On a side note, the intellectual portions of Vedic literature often emphasise the need for viveka (knowledge, discrimination) and prashnena (questioning) which are requisite qualities of a shisya (student). Arguably, much of Buddhist metaphysics is based on these Upanishadic texts (Vedanta).