Vishontar-jyu, I apologize for not being able to reply promptly if that has kept you. However, I suppose we both shall be taking our time to keep this conversation going. As for your questions, they are already scaring me. What if I failed to give brilliant enough answer ? I might be losing the few fans I have in Sajha. Hehehe. Don't throw me to a risky test. :-) I suppose you can push the conversation ahead without my answers. However, if I have to, I would start with sharing my doubts if I understood your questions, rather intention, accurately. So here I go. Although you have used clear words "learning" and "research", I would like to be sure you indeed meant "learning" and "research". I am bringing this up because what I see around in religious/spiritual teaching is that they mean "training" when they say "learning", and they mean "search" (ending in one search and believing in the first finding) when they say "research" (questioning the finding of the first search again and again and again, hence RE-search !). So, if "training" and "search" were not meant, then I would give a compact answer. Sort of everything in a single capsule. RATIONALITY is all one needs for learning and research. Once you have rationality, everything will follow. Cunning answer, No ? ;-) Nepe