When Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara was practicing
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 Dharmas; 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 unimpeded 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 Anuttara-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:
Gaté Gaté Paragaté Parasamgaté Bodhi Svaha!
End of The Heart of Prajna Paramita Sutra
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