Maha Prajna Paramita Hridaya Sutra
The Heart Sutra
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, impulses, consciousness.
O Shariputra, all dharmas are marked with emptiness. They are without birth or death, are not tainted, nor pure; do not increase, nor decrease. Therefore, in emptiness no form, no feelings, no perceptions, no impulses, 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 world of eyes, through to no world of mind consciousness. No ignorance and also no extinction of it, through to 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.
The Bodhisattvas depend on Prajna Paramita and their minds are no hindrance. Without any hindrance no fears exist. Far apart from every deluded view they dwell 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:
Gyate, gyate, paragyate
parasam gyate, bodhi Svaha!
