Constantly contemplate all dharmas as emptiness by nature and
all problems are gone!
The Heart Sutra
When Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara 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, and 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 Anuttara-samyak-sambodhi 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!
