MAKA HANNYA HARAMITA SHIN GYO
The Great Prajna-Paramita Heart Sutra
KAN JI ZAI BO SA GYO- JIN HAN-NYA HA RA MI TA JI
Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva, while meditating deeply in the Prajñaparamita,
SHO- KEN GO ON KAI KU- DO IS-SAI KU
YAKU.
clearly perceived that all five skandhas are equally empty, overcoming
all suffering.
SHA RI SHI SHIKI FU I KU- KU- FU I SHIKI
"Listen, Shariputra, form does not differ from emptiness, nor
emptiness from form.
SHIKI SOKU ZE KU- KU- SOKU ZE SHIKI
Form is emptiness, emptiness is form.
JU SO- GYO- SHIKI YAKU BU NYO ZE
The same thing is true with feelings, perception, mental functioning,
and consciousness.
SHA RI SHI ZE SHO HO- KU- SO- FU SHO- FU METSU
"Shariputra, all things are marked with emptiness; they are neither
produced nor destroyed;
FU KU FU JO- FU ZO- FU GEN
neither stained nor pure, neither increasing nor decreasing.
ZE KO KU- CHU- MU SHIKI MU JU SO- GYO- SHIKI
"Therefore, in emptiness there is neither form, nor feeling, nor
perception, nor mental functioning, nor consciousness;
MU GEN-NI BI ZES-SHIN I
no eye, no ear, no nose, no tongue, no body, no mind;
MU SHIKI SHO- KO- MI SOKU HO-
no form, no sound, no smell, no taste, no touchable, no object of mind;
MU GEN KAI NAI SHI MU I SHIKI KAI
no realm of eyes, and so forth until no realm of mind consciousness.
MU MU MYO- YAKU MU MU MYO- JIN
"No ignorance and also no extinction of ignorance,
NAI SHI MU RO- SHI YAKU MU RO- SHI JIN
no old age and death, and so forth until no extinction of old age and
death.
MU KU SHU METSU DO-Y
"No suffering, no origination of suffering, no extinction of
suffering, and no path.
MU CHI YAKU MU TOKU I MU SHO TOK'KO
No wisdom and also no attainment. With nothing to attain,
BO DAI SAT-TA E HAN-NYA HA RA MI TA KO
the bodhisattva, relies on Prajñaparamita,
SHIM-MU KEI GE MU KEI GE KO MU U KU FU
has no hindrance in his mind. Without any hindrance in his mind, there
is no fear.
ON RI IS-SAI TEN DO- MU SO- KU GYO- NE HAN
Liberating himself forever from illusion and dream, realizing perfect
Nirvana.
SAN ZE SHO BUTSU E HAN-NYA HA RA MI TA KO
"All Buddhas in the past, present, and future, rely on Prajñaparamita,
TOKU A NOKU TA RA SAM-MYAKU SAM-BO DAI
attain Anuttara Samyak Sambodhi.
KO CHI HAN-NYA HA RA MI TA
"Therefore, one should know that Prajñaparamita
ZE DAI JIN SHU ZE DAI MYO- SHU
is the great sacred mantra, is the great vivid mantra,
ZE MU JO- SHU ZE MU TO- TO- SHU
is the supreme mantra, is the unequaled mantra,
NO- JO IS-SAI KU SHIN JITSU FU KO
that can liberate all suffering truly and indeed.
KO SETSU HAN-NYA HA RA MI TA SHU
SOKU SETSU SHU WATSU
A mantra of Prajñaparamita should therefore be proclaimed:
GYA TEI GYA TEI HA RA GYA TEI HARA SO- GYA TEI
BO JI SOWA KA
Gate, gate, paragate, parasamgate,
bodhi svaha.
HAN-NYA SHIN GYO
The Heart Sutra. |
HISTORY