諸經要集 2.36

2.36

Furthermore, the Huayan jing says: Sons of the Buddha! Just as the rising sun first illuminates all the great kings of mountains, next illuminates all the great mountains, illuminates the diamond-jewel mountains, and only then universally illuminates the whole great earth. The sunlight does not form this thought: 'I should first illuminate the great kings of mountains, and gradually down to universally illuminating the great earth.' It is simply because those mountains and lands have heights and depths that the illumination has precedence and succession. The Tathāgata, the Worthy One, the Samyaksaṃbuddha, is also like this: having accomplished the sun-disk of wisdom of the immeasurable and boundless dharma-realm, he constantly emits the immeasurable, unobstructed light of wisdom, first illuminating the great kings of mountains such as the bodhisattvas, next illuminating the pratyekabuddhas, next illuminating the śrāvakas, next illuminating sentient beings whose wholesome roots are definitively established, according to how they should be converted, and only then completely illuminating all sentient beings down to those who are stubbornly settled in error, creating for them the causal conditions for future benefit. The sunlight of the Tathāgata's wisdom does not form this thought: 'I will first illuminate the bodhisattvas down to those stubbornly settled in error.' He simply emits the sunlight of great wisdom, universally illuminating everything. Sons of the Buddha! Just as when the sun and moon appear in the world, there are none down to the deep mountains and secluded valleys that they do not universally illuminate. The sun and moon of the Tathāgata's wisdom are also like this: they universally illuminate all things, leaving nothing unclear. It is only because the aspirations and wholesome roots of sentient beings are different that the Tathāgata's light of wisdom has various distinctions.