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Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva
when practicing deeply the prajna paramita,
perceived that all five skandhas in their own being are empty
and was saved from all suffering.
"O Shariputra, form does not differ from emptiness,
emptiness does not differ from form.
That which is form is emptiness,
that which is emptiness form.
The same is true of feelings, perceptions, formations,
consciousness.
O Shariputra, all dharmas are marked with emptiness;
they do not appear nor disappear,
are not tainted nor pure,
do not increase nor decrease.
Therefore in emptiness, no form,
no feelings, no perceptions, no formations, no consciousness;
no eyes, no ears, no nose, no tongue, no body, no mind;
no color, no sound, no smell, no taste, no touch, no object of mind;
no realm of eyes until no realm of mind-consciousness;
no ignorance and also no extinction of it until no old-age-and-death
and also no extinction of it;
no suffering, no origination, no stopping, no path;
no cognition, also no attainment.
With nothing to attain,
a bodhisattva depends on prajna paramita
and the mind is no hindrance.
Without any hindrance no fears exist.
Far apart from every perverted view one dwells in nirvana.
In the three worlds all buddhas depend on prajna paramita
and attain unsurpassed complete perfect enlightenment.
Therefore, know the prajna paramita
is the great transcendent mantra,
is the great bright mantra,
is the utmost mantra,
is the supreme mantra,
which is able to relieve all suffering
and is true, not false.
So proclaim the prajna paramita mantra,
proclaim the mantra that says: Gate, Gate, Paragate, Parasamgate!
Bodhi!
Svaha!"
(Heart Sutra in Sino-Japanese)
KAN JI ZAI BO SATSU GYO JIN HANNYA HA RA MITTA JI SHO
KEN GO ON KAI KU DO ISSAI KU YAKU SHA RI SHI SHIKI FU I
KU KU FU I SHIKI SHIKI SOKU ZE KU KU SOKU ZE SHIKI JU SO
GYO SHIKI YAKU BU NYO ZE SHA RI SHI ZE SHO HO KU SO FU
SHO FU METSU FU KU FU JO FU ZO FU GEN ZE KO KU CHU MU
SHIKI MU JU SO GYO SHIKI MU GEN NI BI ZES SHIN NI MU
SHIKI SHO KO MI SOKU HO MU GEN KAI NAI SHI MU I SHIKI
KAI MU MU MYO YAKU MU MU MYO JIN NAI SHI MU RO SHI YAKU
MU RO SHI JIN MU KU SHU METSU DO MU CHI YAKU MU TOKU I
MU SHO TOK KO BODAISATTA E HANNYA HA RA MITTA KO
SHIN MU KE GE MU KE GE KO MU U KU FU ON RI ISSAI TEN DO
MU SO KU GYO NE HAN SAN ZE SHO BUTSU E HANNYA HA RA MITTA
KO TOKU A NOKU TA RA SAN MYAKU SAN BO DAI KO CHI HANNYA
HA RA MITTA ZE DAI JIN SHU ZE DAI MYO SHU ZE MU JO
SHU ZE MU TO DO SHU NO JO ISSAI KU SHIN JITSU FU KO KO
SETSU HANNYA HA RA MITTA SHU SOKU SETSU SHU WATSU GYA
TE GYA TE HA RA GYA TE HARA SO GYA TE BODHI SOWA KA HANNYA SHIN GYO
Last revised 04/01/2006.
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