Learning the facts of wisdom of life is as important as learning the facts of life. It is not enough to know what words mean; it is important to know how to use the words. It isn’t sufficient to learn numbers but to learn how to employ the numbers. It is true in everything. We learn the facts, but we need to learn how to use those facts in skillful ways, in productive ways, in ways that enhance not only our lives but also the lives of others.

In Buddhism it helps to learn as much as we can. In that way we are better prepared, as the Sutra says, to answer questions skillfully, to answer not only the questions of others but our own questions as well. Yet, perhaps as important if not possible more so is the requirement that we learn how to use the knowledge of Buddhism in our lives in both practical and useful ways. In other words, to bring the wisdom of the Buddha into existence in our life.