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Monday, 1 September 2008

Heart Diamond Sutra

The Enlightened
Who freely perceives all things,
Practicing the perfect wisdom,
cast the light of perception on the five elements
that compose all worlds and
saw that they are all emptiness,
and thus overcame all afflictions
and disasters, and spoke:
Oh, the followers of Buddha's Heart,
Form is none other than emptiness,
Emptiness is none other than Form.
Form- it is, in fact, emptiness.
Emptiness-it is, in fact, form.
To sense, to imagine, to will, to conceive-
They too are all like this.
Thus, the Follower,
All these are, in character, emptiness.
They are not mere things that appear or disappear.
Nor are they things impure or pure.
Nor do they merely increase or decrease.
And so, within that emptiness,
There is no form, there is no sensing,
no imagining, no willing, no conceiving.
There are no eyes, no ears, no nose, no tongue, no body, no mind.
There are no sights, no sounds, no smells, no tastes, no objects felt, no realms conceived.
There are no worlds, from " There is no world of eyes" to "There is no world conceived by mind."
There are no twelve causes of pain, from "There is no ignorance, and there is no extinction of ignorance." to "there is no decay and death, and there is not extinction of decay and death."

There are no four truths- of pain, of desire that is the origin of pain, of the obliteration of that desire, of the path to that obliteration.
There is no enlightenment, and there is no attaining of enlightenment,
because there is no attaining of enlightenment.

Because one who quests for enlightenment relies on the Perfect Wisdom,
His heart is free from obstacles.
Because he is free from obstacles,
He has no fear.
Released from all inverted thought and dreamlike delusion,
he enters into the ultimate Nirvana.
All Buddhas, all awakened beings of past, present, and future.
relying on the Perfect Wisdom.

Attain the supremely correct, universal wisdom,
and thus realize that the Perfect Wisdom
is the great mantra, the great mantra of enlightenment,
is the peerless mantra,
the mantra beyond comparison.

It can relieve all suffering,
It is true,
It is not mistaken.
And so he chants the mantra of Perfect Wisdom.
Thus does he chant:

GYATEI GYATEI HARAGYATEI
HARASOGYATEI
BOJISOWAKA

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