Formlessness is its ancestry, non-attachment is its substance, inexplicable existence is its function. Bodhidharma came from the West to transmit the message of this sutra so that people could realize the truth and see their natures. . . . On hearing this sutra, those who have planted good roots in previous lives will understand at once. While those who have no such karmic wisdom might recite it repeatedly and still not realize the Buddha's meaning.
~Hui-Neng in the preface to his commentary on the Heart Sutra
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