user10826: Is there a stage in practice when the practitioner is drawn to read the sutras? My problem is that I'm at a point where I'm confused w.r.t. what should I do. Performing actions seems pointless, there is no access to "higher" feeling like delight, joy, love, etc. Everything is "ok", which makes it dull.

user10824: Sit with the dullness of it. Get to know the dullness.
One of the greatest challenges of Buddhism, is to learn to avoid aversion. 
Dullness, is generally speaking, unexciting. When you feel unexcited, it makes you want to get away from that feeling. Don't try to get away from it. Sit with it. Discover what happens when you just let it be.
First and foremost, ask yourself, " what is going on with me, that I am having an emotional reaction to this experience?"
Not just when you are having unplesant emotional reactions, but also when you are feeling good about it. And not only your experience with your buddhist practice, but with everything, all the time.
Even with the feelings you are having right now as you read my reply.

10826: <p>Is there a stage in practice when the practitioner is drawn to read the sutras? My problem is that I'm at a point where I'm confused w.r.t. what should I do. Performing actions seems pointless, there is no access to "higher" feeling like delight, joy, love, etc. Everything is "ok", which makes it dull.</p>
 10824: <p>Sit with the dullness of it. Get to know the dullness.</p>

<p>One of the greatest challenges of Buddhism, is to learn to avoid aversion. </p>

<p>Dullness, is generally speaking, unexciting. When you feel unexcited, it makes you want to get away from that feeling. Don't try to get away from it. Sit with it. Discover what happens when you just let it be.</p>

<p>First and foremost, ask yourself, " what is going on with me, that I am having an emotional reaction to this experience?"</p>

<p>Not just when you are having unplesant emotional reactions, but also when you are feeling good about it. And not only your experience with your buddhist practice, but with everything, all the time.</p>

<p>Even with the feelings you are having right now as you read my reply.</p>
