There are three types of cultivation methods

There are three types of cultivation methods: Stillness: Perceiving subtle changes and movements, subduing afflictions, and manifesting wisdom. Function: To perceive and understand all subtle changes, knowing that all phenomena are like illusions. Constancy: Achieving the wisdom to respond to things with compassion, subduing afflictions, and manifesting compassion. Function: True nature remains unmoved, and all understanding and practice naturally become meritorious deeds. Observation: Observing from the great to the subtle, achieving wisdom that transcends external things, subduing afflictions, and manifesting liberation. Function: To know the causes and conditions of everything in the ten directions, even a single drop of rain, as clearly as if looking at one's palm. (Maitreya Bodhisattva primarily cultivates the observation of consciousness-only. In the Shurangama Sutra, Maitreya Bodhisattva says: 'All realms in the ten directions, Buddhas and sentient beings, all purity and impurity, arise from my body.') Guanyin Bodhisattva achieves the perfect penetration of the ear-root (returning the hearing to the root of consciousness) and cultivates these three methods together. The choice of cultivation method emphasizes suitability for oneself, not the quantity. It can be one, two, or three methods, or a combination of two or three, or sequential cultivation. The key is to subdue the mind's various afflictions and realize the unconditioned nature (all phenomena are like illusions).