"They should not activate the mind dwelling on form" is the indicator of the whole; the distinctions of sound, scent, etc., are a list of names. People give rise to feelings of hatred and love for these objects of the six senses, and because of this subjectivity they accumulate countless knots of habits that cover up their buddha-nature. Even if they labor at various practices, as long as they have not gotten rid of the defilement in their minds, there is no way they can be liberated. When you look into the root basis, it is all due to fixating the mind on form.
---Hui-neng, in his commentary on the Diamond Sutra---
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