Outside Things
Many people are attached to seeing God or Buddha. They see things superficially and look for God and Buddha in outside things. But this kind of view can never see the true Buddha. “Form” means outside things that you can perceive. It also means inside things, like thoughts that arise in the mind. It means feelings, perceptions, impulses, and consciousness, in addition to outside objects. It means any kind of form. So if you believe that any forms actually exist, you are practicing the wrong path. Originally, there are no forms, feelings, perceptions, impulses, or consciousness. Outside things are also impermanent, without names and forms. They are completely empty. If you are attached to these things, you cannot see your true nature: attachment comes from the deluded view that things exist. Because of this basic delusion, you believe that there is some outside world of objects and things. You believe too, that there is something inside. You make inside and outside. You believe that these things exist, because you have now made self and other, this and that. This is still only thinking and attachment. Deeply perceiving your true nature is a view that has no inside or outside. You attain the Absolute which has no subject or object whatsoever. There is no name and no form. This view is your true self.