When
Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva was practicing the profound prajna paramita, he
illuminated the five skandhas and saw that they are all empty, and he
crossed beyond all suffering and difficulty.
Shariputra,
form does not differ from emptiness; emptiness does not differ from form. Form itself is emptiness; emptiness itself is form. So, too, are feeling,
cognition, formation, and consciousness.
Shariputra, all dharmas are empty of characteristics. They are not produced. Not destroyed, not defiled, not pure, and they neither increase nor diminish. Therefore, in emptiness there is no form, feeling, cognition, formation, or consciousness; no eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, or mind; no sights, sounds, smells, tastes, objects of touch, or dharmas; no field of the eyes, up to and including no field of mind-consciousness; and no ignorance or ending of ignorance, up to and including no old age and death or ending of old age and death. There is no suffering, no accumulating, no extinction, no way, and no understanding and no attaining.
Shariputra, all dharmas are empty of characteristics. They are not produced. Not destroyed, not defiled, not pure, and they neither increase nor diminish. Therefore, in emptiness there is no form, feeling, cognition, formation, or consciousness; no eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, or mind; no sights, sounds, smells, tastes, objects of touch, or dharmas; no field of the eyes, up to and including no field of mind-consciousness; and no ignorance or ending of ignorance, up to and including no old age and death or ending of old age and death. There is no suffering, no accumulating, no extinction, no way, and no understanding and no attaining.
Because
nothing is attained, the Bodhisattva, through reliance on prajna
paramita, is unimpeded in his mind. Because there is no impediment, he is
not afraid, and he leaves distorted dream-thinking far behind. Ultimately
Nirvana!
All
Buddhas of the three periods of time attain Anuttarasamyaksambodhi
through reliance on prajna paramita. Therefore, know that prajna paramita
is a great spiritual mantra, a great bright mantra, a supreme
mantra, an unequalled mantra. It can remove all suffering; it is genuine
and not false. That is why the mantra of prajna paramita was spoken.
Recite it like this:
Gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha!
Translated by Tang Dharma Master of the Tripitaka Hsüan-Tsang on
imperial command
Source : Buddhist Text Translation Society
Note : Shariputra, is a top disciple
of Shakyamuni Buddha
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