8th Issue (June, 2008)

Heart Sūtra

Mandy Mui

The Heart Sūtra, Heart of Perfection of Wisdom
The greatest mantra, an answer to eradicate all suffering
View it with the Dharma eye - be dust free
The message is clear, you shall see

The Heart Sūtra, the Ultimate Truth
The right view of enlightened Ones,
Answer to Perfection of Wisdom will come
Matter is emptiness, emptiness is matter

Every phenomenon is impermanent
Form is empty, emptiness is form
Signless, markless are all phenomena
They co-arise from causes and conditions

There is no self, but emptiness
There is no ‘mine’, for there is no self
Person is a combination of various elements
Which come together under harmony of conditions

Person is dependently originated ‘selfless becoming’
Becoming is that of one physical and four mental activities
Form, sensations, perceptions, volitions, consciousness
Combination of them, known as the five skandhas

Six internal bases, the sensory organs
Eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, mind
Interacting with six external bases resulting in
Sight, sound, scent, taste, tangibles, dharma

Five aspects of human existence are empty
Everything is interconnected, in constant flux
Sees and illuminates the emptiness of the five Skandhas
Thus attains deliverance from all suffering

Suffering caused by egos, attachments,
Resistance to change and loss
No attachment and hindrance in the mind
There is no more fear, nor wishful thinking

Transcending the conventional truth and ultimate truth
No existence of the four noble truths.
The Heart Sūtra, wisdom that perceives reality,
Directly without conceptual attachment

“Gone, gone
Gone beyond
Gone beyond completely beyond
Praise to Awakening”