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Dedication of Merit

HH The Dalai Lama

The Eight Fold Path

The Four Noble Truths

The Five Precepts

The Law Of Karma

Dhammapada

The Heart Sutra

The Metta Sutra

Understanding
Ourselves

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Listen to a Chant

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The Heart Sutra
To be chanted

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The Maha

Prajna Paramita Hydaya Sutra

 

Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva

when practicing deeply the Prajna Paramita

perceives that all five skandhas are empty

and is saved from all suffering and distress.

 

Shariputra,

form does not differ from emptiness,

emptiness does not differ from form.

That which is form is emptiness,

that which is emptiness is form.

 

The same is true of feelings,

perceptions, impulses, consciousness.

 

Shariputra,

all dharmas are marked with emptiness;

they do not appear or disappear,

are not tainted or pure,

do not increase or decrease.

 

Therefore, in emptiness no form, no feelings,

perceptions, impulses, consciousness.

 

No eyes, no ears, no nose, no tongue, no body, no mind;

no color, no sound, no smell, no taste, no touch,

no object on mind;

no realm of eyes

and so forth until no realm of mind consciousness.

 

No ignorance and also no extinction of it,

and so forth until no old age and death

and also no extinction of them.

No suffering, no origination,

no stopping, no path, no cognition,

also no attainment with nothing to attain.

 

The Bodhisattva depends on Prajna Paramita

and the mind is no hindrance;

without any hindrance no fears exist.

Far apart from every perverted view one dwells in Nirvana.

 

In the three worlds

all Buddhas depend on Prajna Paramita

and attain Anuttara Samyak Sambodhi.

 

Therefore, know that Prajna Paramita

is the great transcendent mantra

is the great bright mantra,

is the utmost mantra,

which is able to relieve all suffering

and is true not false.

So proclaim the Prajna Paramita mantra,

proclaim the mantra which says:

 

gate, gate, paragate, parasamgate, bodhi svaha

gate, gate, paragate, parasamgate, bodhi svaha

gate, gate, paragate, parasamgate, bodhi svaha.


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