Heart of Perfect Wisdom
( Prajna Paramita Hridaya Sutra )
Translator: Truc Huy
The Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara, from the deep course of Prajna wisdom, saw clearly
that all five skandhas were empty, thus sundered all bonds of suffering.
Sariputra, know then: form does not differ from emptiness, nor does emptiness
differ from form. Form is no other than emptiness, emptiness no other than form.
The same is true of feelings, perceptions, impulses and consciousness.
Sariputra, all dharmas are marked with emptiness. None are born or die, nor
are they defiled or immaculate, nor do they wax or wane. Therefore, where there
is emptiness, there is no form, no feeling, no perception, no impulse, nor is
there consciousness. No eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, or mind. No color, sound,
smell, taste, touch, or object of mind. There is no domain of sight nor even
domain of mind consciousness. There is no ignorance nor is there ceasing of
ignorance. There is no withering, no death, nor is there ceasing of withering
and death. There is no suffering, or cause of suffering, or cease in suffering,
or path to lead from suffering. There is no cognition, nor even attainment.
So know that the Bodhisattva, indifferent to any kind of attainment whatsoever
but dwelling in Prajna wisdom, is freed of any thought covering, get rid of
the fear bred by it, has overcome what can upset and in the end reaches utmost
Nirvana. All Buddhas of past and present, and Buddhas of future time, through
faith in Prajna wisdom, come to full and perfect Enlightenment.
Therefore, one should know the Prajna paramita as the mantra of great knowledge,
the miraculous, the utmost, the unequalled mantra, whose words relieve all suffering.
This is highest wisdom, true beyond all doubt.
Know then and proclaim the Prajna paramita mantra. It spells like this:
Gate, gate, paragate, parasamgate, bodhi svaha !
( Gone, gone, gone beyond, gone altogether beyond, Bodhi, rejoice ! )
( English translation: Truc Huy)