The Heart Sutra

"Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva, practicing deep prajna

paramita

Clearly saw that all five skandhas are empty, transforming all

suffering and distress.

Form is no other than emptiness, emptiness no other than form;

Form is exactly emptiness, emptiness exactly form;

sensation, thought, impulse, consciousness are also like this.

All things are marked by emptiness - not born,

not destroyed;

not stained, not pure; without gain, without loss.

Therefore, in emptiness, there is no form, no sensation,

thought, impulse, consciousness;

no eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, mind;

no color, sound, smell, taste, touch, object of thought;

no realm of sight to no realm of thought;

no ignorance and also no end ending of ignorance

to no old age and death and also no ending of old age and death;

no suffering, also no source of suffering, no annihilation, no path;

no wisdom, also no attainment. Having nothing to attain,

Bodhisattvas live prajna paramita

with no hindrance in the mind. No hindrance, thus no fear.

Far beyond delusive thinking, they attain complete Nirvana.

All Buddhas past, present, and future live prajna paramita

and thus attain perfect awakened enlightenment.

Therefore, know that prajna paramita is

the great mantra, the wisdom mantra,

the unsurpassed mantra, the supreme mantra,

whcih completely removes all suffering.

This is the truth, not deception.

Therefore, set forth the prajna paramita mantra,

set forth this mantra and say:

Gaté, gaté, paragaté, parasamgaté, Bodhi Svaha."