Heart Sutra
Avolokitesvara Bodhisattva, doing deep Prajna Paramita,
Clearly saw Mu (Emptiness) of all the five conditions,
Thus redeeming misfortune and pain.
O Sariputra, form is no other than Mu,
Emptiness no other than form;
Form is exactly Emptiness, Emptiness exactly form;
Feeling, thought, discrimination, perception are likewise like
this.
O Sariputra, all such things are Emptiness form,
not born, not destroyed.
Not stained, not pure, without loss, without gain;
So in Emptiness there is no form, no feeling,
thought, discrimination, perception;
No eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, mind;
No color, voice, smell, taste, touch, thing;
No world of sight ... no world of consciousness;
No ignorance and no end to ignorance . . .
No old age and death, and no end to old age and death;
No pain, accumulation, destruction, path;
No wisdom and no gain; no gain and thus
The Bodhisattva lives by Prajna Paramita
With no hindrance in the mind,
no hindrance therefore no fear.
Far beyond mistaken fantasy, at last there is Nirvana.
All past, present, and future Buddhas
live by Prajna Paramita,
And therefore get the highest, the most perfect enlightenment.
Therefore know, the Prajna Paramita Sutra is
The great Dharani, the vivid Dharani,
The best Dharani, the incomparable Dharani;
It completely clears all pain -- this is the truth, not a lie.
So set forth the Prajna Paramita Dharani,
Set forth this Dharani and say:
Let's go! Let's go! Go to the other shore!
Bodhi! Svaha! Prajna Paramita Sutra.
MA KA HAN NYA HA RA MI TA SHINGYO
Heart Sutra
KAN JI ZAI BO SA (TSU) GYO JIN HAN NYA HA RA MI TA JI SHO KEN GO ON
KAI KU DO IS SAI KU YAKU SHA RI 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 ZE KO
KU CHU MU SHIKI MU JU SO GYO SHIKI MU GEN NI BI ZES SHIN NI MU
SHIKI SHO KO MI SOKU HO MY GEN KAI NAI SHI MU I SHIKI KAI MU MU MYO
YAKU 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 I MU SHO TOK(U) KO BO
DAI SAT TA E HAN NYA HA RA MI TA KO SHIN MU KE GE MU KE GE KO MU U
KU FU ON RI IS SAI TEN DO MU SO KU GYO NE HAN SAN ZE SHO BUTSU E
HAN NYA HA RA MI TA KO TOKU A NOKU TA RA SAM MYAKU SAM BO DAI KO
CHI HAN NYA HA RA MI TA ZE DAI JIN SHU ZE DAI MYO SHU ZE MU JO SHU
ZE MU TO TO SHU NO JO IS SAI KU SHIN JITSU FU KO KO SETSU HAN NYA
HA RA MI TA SHU SOKU SETSU SHU WATSU GYA TEI GYA TEI HA RA GYA TEI
HARA SO GYA TEI BO JI SOWA KA HAN NYA SHIN GYO.
(Aitken, Robert/Shimano, Eido Roshi: Daily Sutras for Chanting and Recitation, The
New York Zendo of the Zen Studies Society, Inc., New York 1968)
