If theoretical breakthroughs are not made, you can hardly expect practice to achieve fundamental leaps. Just like if you cannot perceive "greed, anger, ignorance" as poisons, you naturally won't think to sever from them.
How would you abandon something that has always accompanied you?
Ignorance and compassion may seem similar, but they are actually different. Therefore, the ancient saying "a compassionate mother spoils her child" is incorrect; rather, it should be "an ignorant mother spoils her child."
Human development has always been practice first, then slowly becomes theory. Theory summarizes specific laws and guides further practical expansion.
Theories without practice exist only in the minds of dreamers; practice without theory is like a rootless tree, hardly likely to achieve extreme expansion. Thus, many ancient great studies were lost because fundamentally, there was no systematic theory as support.
