The Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra

From the depths of prajna wisdom

the Bodhisattva of Compassion saw into the emptiness

of every construct, and so passed beyond all suffering.

Know then that in such depths form is only emptiness,

emptiness only form.

Form is emptiness, emptiness is form.

This is true of feelings, perceptions, impulses

and the rest of consciousness.

All these, by their very nature, are emptiness,

being neither born nor dying, stained nor pure,

waxing nor waning.

So in emptiness there is neither form,

feelings, perceptions, impulses or consciousness;

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

nor form, sound, smell, taste, touch or object of the mind;

no element of sight nor any other element of consciousness;

no ignorance, no old age or death;

no extinguishing of ignorance, old age or death;

no suffering, no beginning or end, no path,

no wisdom, no attainment.

The Bodhisattva who dwells in this perfect wisdom,

attaining nothing, is not entrapped by delusive fantasies

and where there are no such obstacles there can be no fear.

Now, beyond all delusions, one reaches ultimate Nirvana.

Having practiced this same Great Wisdom Gone Beyond,

All Buddas in the past have come to supreme enlightenment

know then that this peerless mantra, this true mantra

of the highest wisdom, unfailingly relieves all suffering

and so proclaim it -

Gone, gone beyond, gone altogether beyond,

Awakened - fulfilled,

Heart of Great Wisdom