Fw: The Heart of the Perfection of Great Wisdom Sutra

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Anna Ruiz

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Saturday, August 13, 2005 2:06 PM

The Heart of the Perfection of Great Wisdom Sutra

 

 

from Infinite Circle

Teachings in Zen

by Bernie Glassman

 

 

 

Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva doing deep prajnaparamita

Perceived the emptiness of all five conditions

And was freed of pain.

O Shariputra, form is no other than emptiness,

Emptiness no other than form;

Form is precisely emptiness,

Emptiness precisely form.

Sensation, perception, reaction, and consciousness are

also like this.

O Shariputra, all things are expressions of emptiness:

Not born, not destroyed; not stained, not pure,

neither waxing nor waning.

This emptiness is not form.

Not sensation nor perception, reaction nor consciousness;

No eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, mind;

No color, sound, smell, taste, touch, thing;

No realm of sight, no realm of consciousness;

No ignorance, no end to ignorance;

No old age and death, no cessation of old age and death;

No suffering, no cause or end to suffering;

No path, no wisdom, and no gain.

No gain--thus Bodhisattvas live this prajnaparamita

With no hindrance of mind.

No hindrance, therefore no fear.

Far beyond all such delusion, Nirvana is already here.

All past, present and future buddhas live this prajnaparamita

And attain supreme perfect enlightenment.

Therefore know that prjna parmita is the holy mantra,

The luminous mantra, the supreme mantra, the

incomparable mantra

By which all suffering is cleared,

This is no other than truth.

Therefore, set fourth prjnaparmitra mantra,

Set forth this mantra and proclaim:

 

Gate, gate, paragate, parasamgate, bodhi svaha!

 

 

 

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> Gate, gate, paragate, parasamgate, bodhi svaha!

Gone gone, gone beyond, gone all together beyond............Oh what an

awakening

 

I do love this sutra