Without sufficient wisdom, nothing can be done well

If a person lacks wisdom of direct perception (pratyakṣa) and wants to rely on the authority of the correct teachings, that is also not easy. The Buddhist sutras are there in black and white, yet how many people misunderstand them, how many misinterpret them? Even if one recites the sutra text verbatim, word for word without changing a single character, the moment the sounds come out with their rises and falls in intonation, the meaning of the sutra can be altered. In the present-day Tripitaka, many texts have been re-edited and re-proofread by modern people, and even the punctuation marks have been placed incorrectly. Classical Chinese sutras generally consist of unpunctuated sentences; after modern people proofread them, they convert them to modern punctuation, and then the meaning of the sutra gets twisted, so that the original meaning can no longer be seen. In short, in a single sentence: foolishness means insufficient wisdom, and with insufficient wisdom one cannot do anything well.