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HEART OF GREAT PERFECT WISDOM SUTRA


Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva, when deeply practicing prajna paramita, clearly saw that all five skandhas are empty and thus relieved all suffering. Shariputra, form does not differ from emptiness, emptiness does not differ from form. Form itself is emptiness, emptiness itself form. Sensations, perceptions, formations, and consciousness are also like this. Shariputra, all dharmas are marked by emptiness; they neither arise nor cease, are neither defiled nor pure, neither increase nor decrease. Therefore, given emptiness, there is no form, no sensation, no perception, no formation, no consciousness; no eyes, no ears, no nose, no tongue, no body, no mind; no sights, no sound, no smell, no taste, no touch, no object of mind, no realm of sight, down to no realm of mind consciousness. There is neither ignorance nor extinction of ignorance, down to neither old age and death, nor extinction of old age and death; no suffering, no cause, no cessation, no path; no knowledge and no attainment. With nothing to attain, a Bodhisattva relies on prajna paramita, and thus the mind is without hindrance. Without hindrance, there is no fear. Far beyond all inverted views, one realizes nirvana. All Buddhas of past, present, and future rely on prajna paramita and thereby attain unsurpassed, complete, perfect enlightenment. Therefore, know the prajna paramita as the great miraculous mantra, the great bright mantra, the supreme mantra, the incomparable mantra, which removes all suffering and is true, not false. Therefore we proclaim the prajna paramita mantra, the mantra that says: "Gate Gate Paragate Parasamgate Bodhi Svaha."

 

ALL BUDDHAS THROUGHOUT SPACE AND TIME
ALL HONORED ONES BODHISATTVAS MAHASATTVAS

WISDOM BEYOND WISDOM MAHA PRAJNA PARAMITA

JI HO SAN SHI I SHI FU
SHI SON BU SA MO KO SA
MO KO HO JA HO RO MI

 

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