THE PRAJNAAPAARAMITAA-HRIDAYA SUTRA
When the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara was engaged in the practice of the deep Prajnaapaaramitaa, he perceived: there are five Skandhas ; and these he saw in their self-nature to be empty.
" O Saariputra, form is here emptiness, emptiness is form; form is no other than emptiness, emptiness is no other than form; what is form that is emptiness, what is emptiness that is form. The same can be said of sensation, thought, confection, and consciousness.
" O Saariputra , all things are here characterised with emptiness: they are not born, they are not annihilated; they are not tainted, they are not immaculate; they do not increase, they do not decrease. Therefore, O Saariputra, in emptiness there is no form, no sensation, no thought, no confection, no consciousness; no eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, mind; no form, sound, colour, taste, touch, objects; no Dhaatu of vision, till we come to no Dhaatu of consciousness; there is no knowledge, no ignorance, will we come to there is no old age and death, no extinction of old age and death; there is no suffering, accumulation, annihilation, path; there is no knowledge, no attainment, 〔and〕 no realisation because there is no attainment. In the mind of the Bodhisattva who dwells depending on the Prajnaapaaramitaa there are no obstacles, and, going beyond the perverted views, he reaches final Nirvaana. All the Buddhas of the past, present, and future, depending on the Prajnaapaaramitaa, attain to the highest perfect enlightenment.
"Therefore, one ought to know that the Prajnaapaaramitaa is the great Mantra, the Mantra of great wisdom, the the highest Mantra, the peerless Mantra, which is capable of allaying all pain; it is truth because it is not falsehood: this is the Mantra proclaimed in the Prajnaapaaramitaa. It runs: 'Gate gate paaragate, paarasamgate, bodhi, svaahaa!'(O Bodhi, gone, gone, gone to the other shore, landed at the other shore, Svaahaa!)"
When the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara was engaged in the practice of the deep Prajnaapaaramitaa, he perceived: there are five Skandhas ; and these he saw in their self-nature to be empty.
" O Saariputra, form is here emptiness, emptiness is form; form is no other than emptiness, emptiness is no other than form; what is form that is emptiness, what is emptiness that is form. The same can be said of sensation, thought, confection, and consciousness.
" O Saariputra , all things are here characterised with emptiness: they are not born, they are not annihilated; they are not tainted, they are not immaculate; they do not increase, they do not decrease. Therefore, O Saariputra, in emptiness there is no form, no sensation, no thought, no confection, no consciousness; no eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, mind; no form, sound, colour, taste, touch, objects; no Dhaatu of vision, till we come to no Dhaatu of consciousness; there is no knowledge, no ignorance, will we come to there is no old age and death, no extinction of old age and death; there is no suffering, accumulation, annihilation, path; there is no knowledge, no attainment, 〔and〕 no realisation because there is no attainment. In the mind of the Bodhisattva who dwells depending on the Prajnaapaaramitaa there are no obstacles, and, going beyond the perverted views, he reaches final Nirvaana. All the Buddhas of the past, present, and future, depending on the Prajnaapaaramitaa, attain to the highest perfect enlightenment.
"Therefore, one ought to know that the Prajnaapaaramitaa is the great Mantra, the Mantra of great wisdom, the the highest Mantra, the peerless Mantra, which is capable of allaying all pain; it is truth because it is not falsehood: this is the Mantra proclaimed in the Prajnaapaaramitaa. It runs: 'Gate gate paaragate, paarasamgate, bodhi, svaahaa!'(O Bodhi, gone, gone, gone to the other shore, landed at the other shore, Svaahaa!)"