{"id":258450,"date":"2024-04-01T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T11:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=258450"},"modified":"2024-04-01T08:56:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T07:56:52","slug":"the-heart-sutra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/04\/the-heart-sutra\/","title":{"rendered":"The Heart Sutra"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tibetan Buddhist Culture – Transcending the civilized-barbarian-savage Classification. PxHere.com<\/p><\/div>\n

Om Homage to the Perfection of Wisdom the Lovely, the Holy !<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Avalokita, the Holy Lord and Bodhisattva, was moving in the deep course of the Wisdom which has gone beyond.<\/p>\n

He looked down from on high, He beheld but five heaps, and He saw that in their own-being they were empty.<\/p>\n

Here, O Sariputra,<\/p>\n

form is emptiness and the very emptiness is form ;<\/p>\n

emptiness does not differ from form, form does not differ from emptiness, whatever is emptiness, that is form,<\/p>\n

the same is true of feelings, perceptions, impulses, and consciousness.<\/p>\n

Here, O Sariputra,<\/p>\n

all dharmas are marked with emptiness ;<\/p>\n

they are not produced or stopped, not defiled or immaculate, not deficient or complete.<\/p>\n

Therefore, O Sariputra,<\/p>\n

in emptiness there is no form nor feeling, nor perception, nor impulse, nor consciousness ;<\/p>\n

No eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, mind ; No forms, sounds, smells, tastes, touchables or objects of mind ; No sight-organ element, and so forth, until we come to :<\/p>\n

No mind-consciousness element ; There is no ignorance, no extinction of ignorance, and so forth, until we come to : There is no decay and death, no extinction of decay and death. There is no suffering, no origination, no stopping, no path.<\/p>\n

There is no cognition, no attainment and no non-attainment.<\/p>\n

Therefore, O Sariputra,<\/p>\n

it is because of his non-attainmentness that a Bodhisattva, through having relied on the Perfection of Wisdom, dwells without thought-coverings. In the absence of thought-coverings he has not been made to tremble,<\/p>\n

he has overcome what can upset, and in the end he attains to Nirvana.<\/p>\n

All those who appear as Buddhas in the three periods of time fully awake to the utmost, right and perfect Enlightenment because they have relied on the Perfection of Wisdom.<\/p>\n

Therefore one should know the prajnaparamita as the great spell, the spell of great knowledge, the utmost spell, the unequalled spell, allayer of all suffering, in truth — for what could go wrong ? By the prajnaparamita has this spell been delivered. It runs like this :<\/p>\n

gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha.<\/p>\n

( Gone, gone, gone beyond, gone altogether beyond, O what an awakening, all-hail ! — )<\/p>\n

This completes the Heart of perfect Wisdom.
\nTranslated by E. Conze<\/i><\/p>\n

Go to Original – buddhism.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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