Refrain from all unwholesome deeds, cultivate all wholesome deeds, purify one's own mind — this is the teaching of all Buddhas.

To refrain from all evil, to practice all good deeds, to purify one's own mind—this is the teaching of all Buddhas. Whether one commits evil or refrains from committing evil is determined by the manas as the master; likewise, whether one performs good deeds or refrains from performing them is also determined by the manas as the master. If one no longer commits any evil at all, the manas must have eliminated all afflictions, and must also have eliminated all habitual tendencies of afflictions. At this point, one must at the very least have cultivated to the level of an eighth-bhūmi bodhisattva, with segmented birth-and-death already ended.

As for being able to practice all good deeds, one must not only extensively make the pure great vows of a bodhisattva, but also carry them out broadly and earnestly. Whenever one encounters conditions to undertake endeavors that can benefit sentient beings, one should do so, paying no heed whatsoever to personal gain. Only in this way can one receive great benefit in return as a personal reward, because in sacrificing oneself for others, it is in fact still oneself who gains the benefit—ultimately attaining buddhahood.

As for purifying one's own mind, at the very beginning the mind consciousness can manage to purify its own mind, but it is often still subject to defilement by the manas. When the mind consciousness purifying its own mind is not yet ultimate, then one must steep and influence the manas, purifying the mind of the manas. Once the mind of the manas is purified, all bodily, verbal, and mental actions will necessarily be pure, and all defiled seeds will be completely replaced with pure seeds. Thus ignorance is exhausted in its entirety, and the Buddha Way is accomplished. The above is what all Buddhas have taught; may we follow and accord with the teachings of the Buddhas, believing, accepting, and practicing them!