The Great Heart of Wisdom Sutra

Description of the Sutra:

The Hannya Shingyo is also known as "The Great Heart of Wisdom Sutra" or, more simply, "The Heart Sutra." It is a concise scripture that contains the heart or the essence of Buddhist teachings. Kannon, seen as the personification of compassion, tells the monk Shariputra that nothing -- including human existance -- has ultimate substantiality, which in turn means that nothing is permanent and nothing is totally independent of everything else. In other words, everything in this world is interconnected and constantly changing. A deep appreciation of this idea of emptiness thus saves us from the suffering caused by our egos, our attachments, and our resistance to change and loss.

The Great Heart of Wisdom Sutra (English translation):

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.

Oh 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.

Wisdom Heart Sutra.

MAKA HANNYA HARAMITTA SHINGYO (Romanized Japanese):

KAN JI ZAI BO SATSU GYO JIN HAN NYA HA RA MIT TA JI SHO KEN GO ON KAI KU DO IS SAI KU YAKU

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GYA TE GYA TE HA RA GYA TE HARA SO GYA TE BO JI SOWA KA

HANNYA SHINGYO