This quote is from Master Hsuan Hua‘s commentary on the Medicine Master Sūtra, but it applies to all Buddhist studies.

Does anyone have opinions or questions about the principles of the sūtra? Do you have any insights into the sūtra’s meaning? We should all bring out our opinions and questions for discussion.

The principles that we study in Buddhism are neither your principles, nor my principles, nor the Buddha’s principles. They are the principles of logic and wisdom that everyone should follow. Buddhism is not like certain religions that use faulty reasoning to keep people ignorant and uninformed so that they will accept the tenets of the religion without questioning them.

Buddhism comes from a kind of collective wisdom. What accords with wisdom is the truth, while what does not cannot be practiced. The principles that we are investigating are not imposed from on high with the purpose of keeping us ignorant and uninformed. Therefore, everyone has the right to speak. Using our wisdom, we should determine which doctrines are correct and which are not. We need to have Dharma-selecting vision so that we can judge for ourselves, not just follow the opinions of others. We must develop our own wisdom. Each person should open his “mine of wisdom” and discover his own genuine wisdom.

The wisdom of each Buddha is the same.