PRAJÑAPARAMITA HEART SUTRA
Recited by M.C. Owens, 2020
The Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara,
while practicing the profound prajñaparamita,
clearly saw that the five aggregates are empty;
thus, overcoming all suffering.
Sariputra,
form is no different from empty;
empty no different from form.
Form is just empty;
empty just form.
Sensation, perception, conditioning, and consciousness are also like this.
Sariputra, this is the emptiness of all dharmas:
they neither arise nor cease;
are neither defiled nor pure,
and neither increase nor decrease.
For this reason, within emptiness there is no form.
No sensation, perception, conditioning or consciousness.
No eye, ear, nose, tongue, body or mind.
No sight, sound, scent, taste, touch or thought.
No seeing,…not even thinking.
No ignorance nor end of ignorance,
Not even aging and death, nor end of aging and death.
No suffering, its origin, cessation or the path.
No wisdom and no attainment.
Since nothing is attained, bodhisattvas maintain prajnaparamita. Then their heart is without hindrance,
and since without hindrance, without fear;
escaping upside-down, dream-like thinking
and completely realizing Nirvana.
All buddhas of all times maintain prajnaparamita,
thus attaining anuttara-samyak-sambhodi.
Hence know, prajnaparamita is the all-powerful mantra,
the great enlightening mantra,
the unexcelled mantra, the unequaled mantra,
able to dispel all suffering.
This is true, not false.
Therefore, proclaim the prajnaparamita mantra; recite the mantra thus:
Om Gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha!
