Only When the Conditions for Attaining the Path of Seeing Are Fulfilled Can One Achieve Accomplishment in Practice

A: In the age of the Dharma's decline, those who achieve results have all come again by relying on their vows. Those without results can only lay a solid foundation for practice, establish good and correct habits of cultivation, and plan for the long term. 

B: Even a bodhisattva who has come again needs several years of practice before producing results once more. It is not that bodhisattvas who have come again take longer—ten, twenty, thirty years; achievement cannot be attained in a short time. Each person can only compare with themselves; if one can make a relatively great progress compared with one's present and past, then the practice is effective. One cannot become fat with a single bite. In the intermediate transitional stage, one needs to fulfill the various causal conditions for seeing the path, which is by no means easy. Of course, for the mind consciousness, seeing the path is very simple and easy—it requires no intermediate process and no fulfillment of the conditions for seeing the path; one only needs a good brain.