Heart Sutra

The Heart Sutra is a popular sutra in Mahāyāna Buddhism.

Quotes

 * Longer Prajñāpāramitā Hṛdaya Sūtra (Lapis Lazuli Texts, Wikisource)


 * Śāriputra,
 * form is not different from emptiness,
 * and emptiness is not different from form.
 * Form itself is emptiness,
 * and emptiness itself is form.
 * Sensation, conception, synthesis, and discrimination are also such as this.


 * Śāriputra,
 * all phenomena are empty of characteristics:
 * they are neither created nor destroyed,
 * neither defiled nor pure,
 * and they neither increase nor diminish.


 * This is because in emptiness
 * there is no form, sensation, conception, synthesis, or discrimination.
 * There are no eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, or thoughts.
 * There are no forms, sounds, scents, tastes, sensations, or phenomena.
 * There is no field of vision
 * and there is no realm of thoughts.
 * There is no ignorance nor elimination of ignorance,
 * even up to and including no old age and death,
 * nor elimination of old age and death.


 * There is no suffering,
 * its accumulation,
 * its elimination,
 * or a path.


 * There is no understanding
 * and no attaining.


 * Because there is nothing to attain, bodhisattvas rely on Prajñāpāramitā, and their minds have no obstructions.
 * With no obstructions, they have no fears.
 * Because they are far removed from backward dream-thinking, their final result is Nirvāna.