Heart
of Perfect Wisdom Sutra
(version for chanting aloud by Daniel Lomax)
Om!
Homage to the blissful holy perfect wisdom!
Avalokiteshvara, holy bodhisattva, moving in deep perfect wisdom,
Saw below the five heaps; these he saw in essence empty.
Hear, O Shariputra:
Form is emptiness, the very emptiness is form;
Not separate from forms is emptiness, not separate from emptiness
is form;
What is form, that is emptiness; what is the emptiness is form.
Like this are feelings, thoughts, impressions, understandings.
Hear, O Shariputra:
All phenomena are marked with emptiness and
Not created, not destroyed, not impure, not pure, not deficient,
not complete.
O Shariputra,
Therefore in the emptiness is no form
And no feeling, thought, impression, understanding,
And no eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, mind;
No form, sound, smell, taste, touch or thought;
No element of eyes, and so forth, to no mind-consciousness element;
No ignorance, no end of ignorance, and so forth,
To no old age and no death, no end of old age or of death;
No sorrow, cause or end, no path;
Nno knowing, no attainment and no non-attainment.
Thus, O Shariputra,
With this non-attainment
Does a bodhisattva, on the perfect wisdom, place reliance,
Thus removing thought obstruction.
With no thought obstruction is no fear, beyond all error,
He is certain of Nirvana.
Buddhas of the three times all awaken
To the highest, perfect, and complete enlightenment, relying on
the perfect wisdom.
Therefore we should know the perfect wisdom, the
great mantra,
Great bright magic mantra, highest mantra and unequalled mantra,
Cure of every sorrow, true because not false.
In perfect wisdom is the mantra spoken:
Gate, Gate,
Paragate,
Parasamgate,
Bodhi Svaha !
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