The Heart Sutra

The Heart Sutra is one of the most popular in Mahayana Buddhism. It comes from the family of Prajnaparamita Sutras. The symbol ⊙ marks the striking of the gong, ⊘ clamping the gong with the wand.

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	Heart Sutra	Translation
Gong only:
	⊙⊙⊙⊘ MAKA HANNYA HARAMITA SHINGYO	The Great Perfection of Wisdom Sutra
Everyone:
	⊙KAN JI ZAI BO SATSU GYO JIN ⊙HAN NYA HA RA MI TA JI SHO KEN ⊙GO ON KAI KU DO IS SAI KU YAKU	The Bodhisattva of Compassion sitting in the deepest wisdom saw the hollowness of things and snapped the ties that bound him to suffering
	SHA RI SHI SHIKI FU I KU KU FU I SHIKI SHIKI SOKU ZE KU KU SOKU ZE SHIKI JU SO GYO SHIKI YAKU BU NYO ZE SHA RI SHI ZE SHO HO KU SO FU SHO FU METSU FU KU FU JO FU ZO FU GEN	Sariputra form and formlessness are not two but one thing feeling and thought, awareness and will are formless all the ways of occurrence are formless They aren't made or broken they don't rise or fall they're not good or bad
	ZE KO KU CHU MU SHIKI MU JU SO GYO SHIKI MU GEN NI BI ZE SHIN I MU SHIKI SHO KO MI SOKU HO MU GEN KAI NAI SHI MU I SHIKI KAI	When all of these are empty eyes and ears nose and tongue body and mind are gone Sight and hearing smell and taste touch and thought are gone all the ways of knowing are gone
	MU MU MYO YAKU MU MU MYO JIN NAI SHI MU RO SHI YAKU MU RO SHI JIN MU KU SHU METSU DO MU CHI YAKU MU TOKU	But not knowing is gone too and stopping not knowing and the outcomes of not knowing: wasting away, death they are all gone hurt is gone, illness is gone, and the cure for it wisdom is gone and its getting.
	I ⊙MU SHO TOKU KO BO DAI SAT TA E ⊙HAN NYA HA RA MI TA KO ⊙SHIN MU KEI GE MU KE GE KO MU U KU FU ON RI IS SAI TEN DO MU SO KU GYO NE HAN	The Bodhisattva, letting everything go resting in the deepest wisdom loses his false bonds and the fears they bring and comes to the clearest light.
	SAN ZE SHO BUTSU E ⊙HAN NYA HA RA MI TA KO TOKU A NOKU TA RA SAN MYAKU SAN BO DAI	All the awakened, those already gone, those here now, those yet to come, through this deep wisdom become the clearest light.
	KO CHI ⊙HAN NYA HA RA MI TA ZE DAI JIN SHU ZE DAI MYO SHU ZE MU JO SHU ZE MU TO DO SHU NOJO IS SAI KU SHIN JITSU FU KO KO SETSU ⊙HAN NYA HA RA MI TA SHU SOKU SETSU SHU WATSU	So know this flawless wisdom this bright spell, no others match it, the best spell, it never fails, it cures all ill. This is wisdom's endstop true beyond mistaking grasp its truth and bring it forth
	GYA TEI GYA TEI HA RA GYA TEI HARA SO GYA TEI BO JI SOWA KA	Gone, gone gone over gone all the way over wake up! take heart!
	⊙HAN NYA SHIN GYO⊘	The wisdom sutra