Buddhist practitioners are those who learn the Buddha's mind and conduct.

The eighth consciousness does not cognize specific phenomena and the realms of the six sense objects; that is what the seventh consciousness cognizes, and also what the six consciousnesses cognize. The essential natures of the true mind and the deluded mind, and the contents they respectively correspond to and cognize, must be strictly distinguished; only then can there be correct understanding and wisdom. If the eighth consciousness knows but the conscious mind does not know, what use is that? Only when the manas knows and the mind consciousness knows does it have meaning and function.

Even if one can read ten thousand volumes of books yet does not understand their meaning, that is not true diligence either. The fundamental purpose of studying the Dharma is to gain wisdom, not to amass countless items of knowledge and learning, not to study for the sake of studying, and certainly not to study for others to see. Therefore, in order to gain wisdom, what we should do and how we should do it is something we ought to ponder carefully. A learner of Buddhism learns the Buddha's mind and conduct; it is not about collecting all of the Buddha's words, but rather, through the Buddha's words, understanding the Buddha's mind, and then learning the Buddha's mind and emulating the Buddha's conduct. Only in the end can one be equal to the Buddha without difference and show compassion to others.