When it comes to cultivation, whether it is self-cultivation or others, there are different opinions, and there is no fixed answer. But everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody's opinion. It's best not to ask for the same, but to ask for it to be correct, to give people a reference, especially for those who are cultivators, to give reference value.
The first point of view is to cultivate oneself, to change oneself and all kinds of bad habits, to re-examine oneself, to correct all one's previous faults, and to practice in the direction of sunshine and light, in the direction of kindness and benefit. Cultivate your own heart, your messy heart, cleanly. Cultivate your own heart, your troubled heart, to rejoice. Cultivate your own heart, your sorrowful heart, to be happy and happy. This is the cultivation and the right path of cultivation.
When it comes to cultivation, no one wants to make their cultivation troubled and annoying, and no one wants to cultivate themselves to be miserable, because there are no things to worry about in their hearts, things that are not hindered, it is because of their cultivation that they have a lot of worries and obstacles in their hearts, and they are going against the path of true cultivation. Those of us who study and practice Buddhism should not be careless and discerning.
The second point of view is that practice is the practice of cultivating others and striving to improve one's own abilities in order to help others and to relieve their difficulties or suffering. This one is also correct. Back then, Shakyamuni saw that many people in the world were suffering, and in order to find a way to get people out of suffering, he gave up his superior living environment and embarked on the path of cultivation. In the end, Shakyamuni attained supreme enlightenment under the Bodhi tree and achieved the path he was pursuing. It is also correct that we study Buddhism for the sake of others, and if we study Buddhism and practice only for ourselves, we will not be able to achieve supreme enlightenment in this life, because this is too selfish, and what selfish person can achieve Taoism. It is said that an arhat is an arhat who does not care about others, but only pursues his own state of nirvana, so Shakyamuni Buddha also reprimanded the arhat and asked him to go back to his childhood to learn from the Mahayana Bodhisattva. For the sake of others, we should also relieve the difficulties of others, and cultivate ourselves for the benefit and happiness of others.
Let's stop here, everyone has a different opinion, a different point of view. A hundred flowers bloom, you can say what you want to say, know everything, and say everything. Everyone is welcome to express their different opinions.