“For full one-pointedness to come, the nooses of desire must go fully far away. Whenever full one-pointedness has not come, it means only that one has not fully let go of the nooses of desire. That is why kāma, krodha and lobha are called the cruel rākṣasas that have seized man. People may well think, ‘Rākṣasas have hideous forms, don't they!’ If the hideousness were in the form alone, there would not be so much danger; that could be called merely a hideous form.”