大乘起信論略述 2.145

2.145

[Treatise:] In the sūtras... in order to make them courageous.
[Exposition:] This harmonizes with the provisional teachings. As the Benye jing says, prior to the seventh dwelling is called falling back. 'Falling back' is not actual falling back on their part. For the sake of those beginners of the ten faiths who have not yet entered the correct determination of the ten dwellings and are indolent, the Tathāgata frightens them to make them generate courage, and therefore speaks of falling back from the sixth dwelling into ordinary personhood. But in reality, once one enters the dwellings, one does not fall back.