In awakening there is the certainty that this potentiality exists unattenuated in 'every sentient being'. How is this possible unless the awakening is integral to sentience as such, is in no way related to the content or condition of such sentience? To the extent that this simple equivalence seems impossible, you are surely mistaking some sort of projected splendour for the essence, looking outward to experience or to assumptions about the objective existence of others. That there is some sort of error in understanding, a confusion of categories, may be true without the consequence that the cause of this is a kind of stupidity, a substantial and negative attribute of beings, a kind of agency or inveteracy. The error is no one's error since it is the attributing of existence and agency to the error itself. But faced with this intuition you still find yourself wanting to do something about it, to find some good use for all your pent-up cleverness.