法界次第初門 3.102

3.102

Fifth is reverent harmony through kindness in verbal action. With unconditioned, impartial great kindness, the bodhisattva cultivates their speech. By the power of the roots of goodness of kindness, without rising from the attainment of cessation, they universally issue all sounds and words to bestow joy upon all; thus their verbal action is in harmony with the nine destinies. They also know that the sentient beings who receive joy before them all possess Buddha-nature and in the future will definitely attain unsurpassed verbal action; therefore they revere them as they would a Buddha. Thus kindness in verbal action is called reverent harmony.