The Heart Sutra

1. 1

   觀自在菩薩，行深般若波羅蜜多時，照見五蘊皆空，度一切苦厄。

   When Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva was practicing the profound perfection of wisdom, he clearly saw that the five aggregates were all empty and passed beyond all suffering and distress.

2. 2

   「舍利子！色不異空，空不異色，色即是空，空即是色；受、想、行、識，亦復如是。

   “Shariputra, form is not different from emptiness, and emptiness is not different from form. Form itself is emptiness, and emptiness itself is form. Feeling, perception, mental formations, and consciousness are also like this.

3. 3

   「舍利子！是諸法空相，不生不滅，不垢不淨，不增不減。是故，空中無色，無受、想、行、識；無眼、耳、鼻、舌、身、意；無色、聲、香、味、觸、法；無眼界，乃至無意識界；無無明，亦無無明盡，乃至無老死，亦無老死盡；無苦、集、滅、道；無智，亦無得，以無所得故。

   “Shariputra, all phenomena are marked by emptiness: they neither arise nor cease, are neither defiled nor pure, and neither increase nor decrease. Therefore, in emptiness there is no form, no feeling, perception, mental formations, or consciousness; no eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, or mind; no form, sound, smell, taste, touch, or mental object; no realm of the eye, and so on up to no realm of mind-consciousness; no ignorance and no ending of ignorance, and so on up to no aging and death and no ending of aging and death; no suffering, origin of suffering, cessation of suffering, or path; no wisdom and no attainment, because there is nothing to attain.

4. 4

   「菩提薩埵，依般若波羅蜜多故，心無罣礙；無罣礙故，無有恐怖，遠離顛倒夢想，究竟涅槃。三世諸佛，依般若波羅蜜多故，得阿耨多羅三藐三菩提。

   “Because bodhisattvas rely on the perfection of wisdom, their minds are without hindrance. Because they are without hindrance, they have no fear. Far removed from inverted views and dreamlike delusions, they attain ultimate nirvana. All Buddhas of the past, present, and future, because they rely on the perfection of wisdom, attain unsurpassed, complete and perfect awakening.

5. 5

   「故知般若波羅蜜多，是大神咒，是大明咒，是無上咒，是無等等咒，能除一切苦，真實不虛。」

   “Therefore, know that the perfection of wisdom is the mantra of great power, the mantra of great illumination, the unsurpassed mantra, the unequaled mantra, which can remove all suffering and is true, not false.”

6. 6

   故說般若波羅蜜多咒，即說咒曰：

   Therefore, the mantra of the perfection of wisdom is proclaimed, recited as follows:

7. 7

   「揭諦 揭諦 波羅揭諦 波羅僧揭諦 菩提薩婆訶」

   “Gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha.”

Text: Heart Sutra (Xuanzang translation), Chinese text. Copied word for word from the edition named here

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