釋禪波羅蜜次第法門 7.8

7.8

Second, there are sentient beings who naturally have more faculty of concentration and less wisdom; for them, the sixteen sublime practices are taught. Because they have less faculty of wisdom, they do not immediately elicit undefiledness in the lower grounds; because they have more concentration, only by being fully endowed with the various dhyānas of the higher grounds do they then attain the path of cultivation.