楞伽阿跋多羅寶經註解 1.574

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佛告大慧：「漸淨非頓。如庵羅果漸熟非頓，如來淨除一切眾生自心現流亦復如是，漸淨非頓。譬如陶家造作諸器，漸成非頓，如來淨除一切眾生自心現流亦復如是，漸淨非頓。譬如大地漸生萬物，非頓生也，如來淨除一切眾生自心現流亦復如是，漸淨非頓。譬如人學音樂書畫種種伎術，漸成非頓，如來淨除一切眾生自心現流亦復如是，漸成非頓。譬如明鏡頓現一切無相色像，如來淨除一切眾生自心現流亦復如是，頓現無相，無有所有清淨境界。如日月輪頓照顯示一切色像，如來為離自心現習氣過患眾生亦復如是，頓為顯示不思議智最勝境界。譬如藏識頓分別知自心現，及身安立受用境界，彼諸依佛亦復如是，頓熟眾生所處境界，以修行者安處於彼色究竟天。譬如法佛所作依佛光明照耀，自覺聖趣亦復如是，彼於法相有性、無性惡見妄想照令除滅。」

The Buddha told Mahāmati: "The purification is gradual, not sudden. Just as an āmra fruit ripens gradually and not suddenly, so too the Tathāgata's purification of the stream of appearances of one's own mind of all sentient beings is gradual, not sudden. Just as a potter makes various vessels gradually and not suddenly, so too the Tathāgata's purification of the stream of appearances of one's own mind of all sentient beings is gradual, not sudden. Just as the great earth gradually generates the myriad things and does not generate them suddenly, so too the Tathāgata's purification of the stream of appearances of one's own mind of all sentient beings is gradual, not sudden. Just as a person learns music, writing, painting, and various arts, mastering them gradually and not suddenly, so too the Tathāgata's purification of the stream of appearances of one's own mind of all sentient beings is gradual, not sudden. Just as a bright mirror suddenly reflects all form-images without marks, so too the Tathāgata's purification of the stream of appearances of one's own mind of all sentient beings suddenly reveals the pure realm of marklessness and nonexistence. Just as the discs of the sun and moon suddenly illuminate and display all form-images, so too for sentient beings who are free from the faults and vāsanās of appearances of their own minds, the Tathāgata suddenly displays the supreme realm of inconceivable jñāna. Just as the storehouse consciousness suddenly discriminates and knows the appearances of its own mind, as well as the realm of bodily establishment and enjoyment, so too those dependent buddhas suddenly ripen the realm where sentient beings dwell, establishing practitioners in the Akaniṣṭha heaven. Just as the dependent buddhas created by the Dharma Buddha shine with radiance, so too the noble approach of personal realization illuminates and extinguishes the evil views and vikalpa of the reality or non-reality of dharmalakṣaṇas."