They "contemplated" and "discerned", cultivating both strength and mind, learning Buddhist teachings and putting them into practice from both the perspectives of knowledge and action.
In learning they practiced, and in practicing they learned.
Such optimization, such iteration, they gradually showed differences from both the old and the new forces within the Buddhist Sect.
This was also true for the monks influenced by this group of monks and those led by them.
Their differences, manifesting within themselves and in the eyes of others, were that they truly were nearing, in both mind and strength, the "Buddha," that is, True Enlightenment, Samyak-sambuddha, Supreme Samyak-sambuddha.
The Bodhisattva Dharma School is indeed the grand path!
This consensus gradually formed in the hearts of these monks and those who witnessed their transformation.