四明尊者教行錄 4.126

4.126

二問：奉第二答中云一切眾生迷無前後、覺有前後，譬如夜間多人同睡，睡時雖同，不妨前後起也。若如此漸漸覺悟成佛，應是眾生界有畢盡之期。若然者，經論之中何以並言眾生無邊耶？

Second question: In receiving your second answer, it was stated that sentient beings have no precedence in delusion, but have precedence in awakening—just as at night many people sleep together, and though their time of sleeping is the same, this does not prevent them from waking earlier or later. If they gradually awaken and become buddhas like this, there should be a time when the realm of sentient beings is completely exhausted. If that is so, why do the sūtras and treatises all say that sentient beings are boundless?