大乘起信論略述 2.155

2.155

[Treatise:] It is merely in accordance with sentient beings ... there are also distinctions. [Commentary:] This is the virtue of distinct functions responding to capacities. Although their spiritual disposition, aspiration, faculties, and realization are equal, their practices and manifestations differ. Sentient beings are not the same, having timidity, laziness, greed, and so forth; worlds are not the same in the events of the Buddhas' appearances; faculties have superior, middling, and inferior; desires and inclinations may be swift, middling, or dull; lineages have inferior, middling, and superior; and in what they see and hear all are different. Therefore, these practices of the bodhisattvas cannot be identical.