The Heart Sutra.
Translation by Edward Conze
Homage to the Perfection of Wisdom, the Lovely, the Holy!
Avalokita, The Holy Lord and Bodhisattva, was moving in the deep
course of the Wisdom which has gone beyond. He looked down from on
high, He beheld but five heaps, and he saw that in their own-being
they were empty.
Here, Sariputra, form is emptiness and the very emptiness is
form; emptiness does not differ from form, form does not differ
from emptiness; whatever is form, that is emptiness, whatever is
emptiness, that is form, the same is true of feelings, perceptions,
impulses and consciousness.
Here, Sariputra, all dharmas are marked with emptiness; they are
not produced or stopped, not defiled or immaculate, not deficient
or complete.
Therefore, Sariputra, in emptiness there is no form, nor
feeling, nor perception, nor impulse, nor consciousness; No eye,
ear, nose, tongue, body, mind; No forms, sounds, smells, tastes,
touchables or objects of mind; No sight-organ element, and so
forth, until we come to: No mind-consciousness element; There is no
ignorance, no extinction of ignorance, and so forth, until we come
to: there is no decay and death, no extinction of decay and death.
There is no suffering, no origination, no stopping, no path. There
is no cognition, no attainment and non-attainment.
Therefore, Sariputra, it is because of his non-attainment that a
Bodhisattva, through having relied on the Perfection of Wisdom,
dwells without thought-coverings. In the absence of
thought-coverings he has not been made to tremble, he has overcome
what can upset, and in the end he attains to Nirvana.
All those who appear as Buddhas in the three periods of time
fully awake to the utmost, right and perfect Enlightenment because
they have relied on the Perfection of Wisdom.Therefore one should
know the prajnaparamita as the great spell, the spell of great
knowledge, the utmost spell, the unequalled spell, allayer of all
suffering, in truth - for what could go wrong? By the
prajnaparamita has this spell been delivered. It runs like
this:
Gone, gone, gone beyond, gone altogether beyond, O what an
awakening, all-hail!
to me the first 看山是山 is just ordinary people's deluded thinking.
看山不是山 is start practice of Sunyata, to see Form as Emptiness;
non-attachment, letting go state. 看山又是山 is
realising the profounity of 'Emptiness is form', non-duality,
non-wandering thoughts, more "Mahayana" state.
letting go is one thing, but picking back up is yet another
transcendence. just like they say letting go/forgetting is easier
than the process of moving on.
when a guy
ask Monk Bu Dai (representing Maitreya Bodhisattva) what
Buddhadharma is all about, He put down his Cloth Sack representing
to let go. The guy then ask what next after letting go. Monk Bu Dai
pick up the sack again and walk off. this mean to help All sentient
beings. which is all Buddhas and bodhisattvas are doing without
end.
t'is also why Vajrayana
stress a lot on bodhicitta, and compassion for sentient beings as
the ultimate goal. they are not scare of samsara. as (Maha)Nirvana
is neither nirvana nor samsara. samsara is Nirvana.
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