Mahayana and Hinayana (seated) are distinguished by bodhicitta. Practicing Buddhism with bodhicitta is Mahayana, while practicing Buddhism without bodhicitta is Hinayana. Not distinguished by classics. For example, people usually say that Hokkekyo is a Mahayana classic and agama is a Mahayana classic. However, if you only read Hokkekyo or any Mahayana classics for your own liberation, or practice Mahayana practice, you can only be called Mahayana walker; On the contrary, if you accept bodhicitta, be selfish and altruistic, and measure yourself, even if you don't practice any Mahayana practice, you just observe the four truths and twelve karma and practice meditation, which is also called Mahayana.

Buddhist practice varies from person to person. Usually it should be based on Hinayana, that is, starting from alienation, observing bitterness, emptiness, impermanence and selflessness, then practicing bodhicitta, and then learning all the corresponding methods with the birth of bodhicitta.