THE HEART OF PRAJNA PARAMITA SUTRA
When Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara
was practising the profound Prajna-paramita,
He illuminated the five skandhas and
saw that they are all empty, and
he crossed beyond all suffering and difficulty.
Shariputra, form does not differ from emptiness;
emptiness does not differ from form.
Form itself is emptiness; emptiness itself is form.
So too are feeling, cognition, formation and consciousness.
Shariputra, all dharmas are empty of characteristics.
They are not produced, not destroyed, not defiled, not pure,
and they neither increase nor diminish.
Therefore, in emptiness there is no form,
feeling, cognition, formation, or consciousness;
no eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, or mind;
no sights, sounds, smells, tastes, objects of touch, or dharma;
no field of the eyes up to and including no field of mind consciousness;
and no ignorance or ending of ignorance, up to
and including no old age and death or ending of old age and death.
There is no suffering, no accumulating,
no extinction, and no way, and no understanding
and no attaining.
Because nothing is attained,
The Bodhisattva, through reliance on Prajna Paramita
is unimpended in his mind.
Because there is no impediment, he is not afraid,
and he leaves distorted dream-thinking far behind.
Ultimately, Nirvana!
All buddhas of the three periods of time attain
Annutara-Samyak-Sambodhi through reliance on Prajna Paramita.
Therefore know that Prajna Paramita is a great spiritual
mantra, a great bright mantra, a supreme mantra,
an unequalled mantra.
It can remove all suffering, it is genuine and not false.
That is why the mantra of Prajna Paramita was spoken.
Recite it like this:
Gate Gate Paragate, Parasamgate Bodhi Svaha!
(End of Prajna Paramita Sutra)
Maha Prajna Paramita(3 times)
