The Heart Sutra¶

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THE HEART OF PRAJNA PARAMITA SUTRA

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this sutra study book has a chapter on the heart sutra + some explanations

THE HEART OF PRAJNA PARAMITA SUTRA

Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, while deeply immersed in prajna paramita, clearly perceived the empty nature of the five skandhas, and transcended all suffering. Shariputra! Form is not different from emptiness, emptiness is not different from form. Form is emptiness, emptiness is form. So it is with feeling, conception, volition, and consciousness.

Shariputra! All dharmas are empty in character; neither arising nor ceasing, neither impure nor pure, neither increasing nor decreasing. Therefore, in emptiness, there is no form; there is no feeling, conception, volition, or consciousness; no eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, or mind; no form, sound, smell, taste, touch, or dharmas; no realm of vision, and so forth, up to no realm of mind-consciousness; no ignorance or ending of ignorance, and so forth, up to no aging and death or ending of aging and death.

There is no suffering, no cause, no extinction, no path. There is no wisdom and no attainment. There is nothing to be attained By way of prajna paramita, the bodhisattva's mind is free from hindrances. With no hindrances, there is no fear; freed from all distortion and delusion, ultimate nirvana is reached.

By way of prajna paramita, buddhas of the past, present, and future attain anuttara-samyak-sambodhi. Therefore, prajna paramita is the great powerful mantra, the great enlightening mantra, the supreme and peerless mantra. It can remove all suffering. This is the truth beyond all doubt.

And the prajna paramita mantra is spoken thus: gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha.

Translated by the Chung Tai Translation Committee from the Chinese translation by Tripitaka Master Kuanzang of the 7th century

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some say the heart sutra is a summary of the diamond sutra
diamond sutra is a summary of x scrolls

The short title of this most popular and important sutra.

It contains the very essence of the vast body of the Prajna Paramita Sutras in Buddhism.

prajna (Skt.)

Great transcendental wisdom; wisdom of understanding the empty nature of the "self" and all phenomena, which can overcome birth-and-death and all suffering, as well as enlighten all beings.

paramita (Skt.)

Literally, "to the other shore." The six paramitas (perfections) are practiced by bodhisattvas to attain buddhahood: perfection of charity (dana), moral conduct (shila), tolerance (kshanti), diligence (virya), meditation (dhyana), and most import- ant of all, wisdom (prajna), which brings true liberation.