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    The Heart Sutra discusses the concept of emptiness and how all things are empty of self-existence according to the practice of Prajnaparamita. The Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara tells Shariputra that all things such as form, sensation, perception, etc. are empty, as are their causes and effects. It states that through understanding emptiness, bodhisattvas are without walls of the mind or fears, and able to see through delusions to nirvana. All buddhas take refuge in Prajnaparamita to achieve enlightenment. The sutra recommends understanding and reciting the mantra of Prajnaparamita.

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    The Heart Sutra discusses the concept of emptiness and how all things are empty of self-existence according to the practice of Prajnaparamita. The Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara tells Shariputra that all things such as form, sensation, perception, etc. are empty, as are their causes and effects. It states that through understanding emptiness, bodhisattvas are without walls of the mind or fears, and able to see through delusions to nirvana. All buddhas take refuge in Prajnaparamita to achieve enlightenment. The sutra recommends understanding and reciting the mantra of Prajnaparamita.

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    Prajnaparamita Hridaya Sutra

    The Heart Sutra


    Red Pine translation

    The noble Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva,


    while practicing the deep practice of Prajnaparamita,
    looked upon the five skandhas
    and seeing they were empty of self-existence,
    said, “Here, Shariputra,
    form is emptiness, emptiness is form;
    emptiness is not separate from form,
    form is not separate from emptiness;
    whatever is form is emptiness,
    whatever is emptiness is form.
    The same holds for sensation and perception,
    memory and consciousness.
    Here, Shariputra, all dharmas are defined by emptiness
    not birth or destruction, purity or defilement,
    completeness or deficiency.
    Therefore, Shariputra, in emptiness there is no form,
    no sensation, no perception, no memory and no
    consciousness;
    no eye, no ear, no nose, no tongue, no body and no mind;
    no shape, no sound, no smell, no taste, no feeling
    and no thought;
    no element of perception, from eye to conceptual
    consciousness;
    no causal link, from ignorance to old age and death,
    and no end of causal link, from ignorance to old age and death;
    no suffering, no source, no relief, no path;
    no knowledge, no attainment and no non-attainment.
    Therefore, Shariputra, without attainment,
    bodhisattvas take refuge in Prajnaparamita
    and live without walls of the mind.
    Without walls of the mind and thus without fears,
    they see through delusions and finally nirvana.
    All buddhas past, present and future
    also take refuge in Prajnaparamita
    and realize unexcelled, perfect enlightenment.
    You should therefore know the great mantra of Prajnaparamita,
    the mantra of great magic,
    the unexcelled mantra,
    the mantra equal to the unequalled,
    which heals all suffering and is true, not false,
    the mantra in Prajnaparamita spoken thus:
    “Gate, gate, paragate, parasangate, bodhi svaha.”

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