Dhamma means doing, whereas Buddha dhamma is recognition of the doing. You can say two things about this: there is Buddhism as a belief system and there is the way of the Buddha, which is a recognition system. The latter is totally different and doesn’t require any book learning at all. When you have book learning, a belief system arises, and at very best, this will only help to create an even state of mind for a short period of time. This is samatha, which you have to keep renewing because it is conditioned, as opposed to vipassana, which leads to the opening of the mind to see things
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