Leader:

Great Wisdom Heart Sutra

Great Wisdom Heart Sutra

Great Wisdom Heart Sutra

Great Wisdom Heart Sutra

Everyone:

Avalokitesvara, an awakened one of great

compassion, experiencing the clear deep truth of

the transcendent wisdom of meditative awareness,

clearly saw that all of the images, thoughts,

feelings and emotional states of ego mind are

empty of any permanent self-nature. Realizing

this, he immediately transcended mental

confusion and ego suffering and told Shariputra:

Remember that all manifested forms are no

other than this emptiness. Emptiness is no other

than all these manifested forms. Form is exactly

emptiness, emptiness is exactly form.

All of our thoughts, feelings, concepts, conscious

states and volitional actions are also like this.

We must remember that even spiritual life and

practice are fundamentally empty. Within this deep

meditative awareness there is no birth,

no death; nothing can be defiled, nothing is pure;

nothing can increase, nothing can decrease.

Hence, in this emptiness, there is no form,

no feeling, no thought, no volition, and no

consciousness. There are no eyes, no ears,

no nose, no tongue, no body, and no mind.

There is no seeing, no hearing, no smelling,

no tasting, no touching, and no thinking.

There is no world of sight, no world of

consciousness. There is no ignorance and no end

to ignorance. There is no aging leading to old age

and death, and no end to aging leading to old age

and death. There is no suffering, no craving, no

extinction, no path, no wisdom and no attainment.

Indeed, there is nothing to be attained.

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