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Heart Sutra
(Prājna Paramita Hridaya Sutra)
When Avalokitesvara had
perfected deep wisdom , he perceived that the five aggregates, are empty, and
thereupon turned to relieve all of the world's suffering. O my beloved
Sariputra, do you not see that form is not different from emptiness, and
emptiness is not different from from? Form is identical to emptiness, and
emptiness is identical to form. Sensation, perception, impulses, and
consciousness are also empty, like form.
O Sariputra, truths are marked with emptiness. They are not produced, not
stopped, not tainted, not pure, they do not increase or decrease. Therefore in
emptiness there is no form, no sensation, no perception, no impulse, and no
consciousness. No eye, no ear, no nose, no tongue, no body, no mind, no forms,
no sounds, no smells, no tastes, no tangibles, no objects of mind. There is no
realm of seeing until we come to the realm of no mind consciousness; there is
no fundamental ignorance, and no extinction of ignorance, until we come to no
old age and no death. There is no suffering, no cause of suffering, no
cessation of suffering, no path. There is no cognition and no attainment,
because there is nothing transcendent to be attained. It is because the
Bodhisattva relies on perfecting this Wisdom that there is no obstacle in his
mind. Because there is no obstacle, there is no fear. He is beyond all
upsetting dreams, and so attains enlightenment. Past, present, and future
Buddhas all rely on perfecting this Wisdom, and therefore attain Supreme, Correct,
and Perfect Enlightenment.
Therefore one should know that perfecting Wisdom is a great, holy mantra, a
great untainted mantra, the Supreme, Incomparable mantra, which completely
disposes all suffering. This is true, not false, and therefore let us expound
the mantra which perfects Wisdom, the mantra which says:
O Bodhi! Gone, gone, gone
to the other shore. Svaha!
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