金剛經纂要刊定記 6.169

6.169

Seeing and hearing cannot reach it. The sūtra text is clear. However, fearing Subhūti might further infer and know the Tathāgata through the expounding of Dharma, it therefore says that seeking him through voice and sound cannot attain him. This doubt comes from the eighteenth [doubt]; it is pre-emptively prevented now, so there is no subsequent exposition.