法界次第初門 3.92

3.92

Second is embrace through kind speech. If the bodhisattva accords with the faculties and sentiments of all with gentle and wholesome words, comforting and instructing them, then all sentient beings will delight in hearing them. Because of this, they give rise to affection, rely upon the bodhisattva, follow to receive the path, and come to abide in the true principle; hence it is named embrace through kind speech.