Great Heart of Wisdom Sutra
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- When Kannon the Bodhisattva of Compassion was practicing the deepest wisdom he clearly saw that the five aggregates are empty thus transcending distress and suffering.
- Oh Shariputra form is no other than emptiness, emptiness no other than form, form is exactly emptiness, emptiness exactly form, feeling thought, impulse, and consciousness are likewise like this.
- Shariputra, remember, Dharma is fundamentally emptiness, no birth, no death.
- Nothing is pure, nothing is defiled.
- Nothing can increase, nothing can decrease.
- Hence: in emptiness, no form, no feeling no thought, no impulse, no consciousness; no eye, no ear, no nose, no tongue, no body, no mind; no seeing, no hearing, no smelling, no tasting, no touching, no thinking, no realm of sight, no realm of thought, no ignorance and no end of ignorance, no old age and death and no end to old age and death.
- No suffering, no craving, no extinction, no path, no wisdom, no attainment.
- Indeed, there is nothing to be attained.
- The Bodhisattvas live this deepest wisdom with no hindrance in the mind, no hindrance therefore no fear.
- Far beyond delusive thinking they finally awaken to complete Nirvana.
- All Buddhas, Bodhisattvas of past, present, and future live this deepest wisdom and ' therefore reach the most supreme enlightenment.
- Therefore know that this wisdom, beyond wisdom, is the greatest Dharani, the brightest Dharani, the highest Dharani, the peerless Dharani.
- It completely ends all suffering.
- Know this as truth and do not doubt.
- So set forth this profound wisdom Dharani.
- Set forth this Dharani and declare: Gone, gone, gone to the other shore, attained the other shore, to beyond the other shore, having never left.