THE ORIGINAL TEXT OF THE HEART SUTRA
(The Great Teaching of Enlightened Heart Wisdom)
When Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva was practicing the deep perfection of embodied wisdom, he clearly saw that all five conditions of being are empty, thus he was relieved from all suffering and pain. *(Avalokiteshvara is an enlightened being of great compassion) *(Five conditions are form, sensation, perception, discrimination & awareness)
Oh Shariputra, form is no other than emptiness, emptiness no other than form. Form is exactly emptiness, emptiness exactly form. Sensation, perception, discrimination, awareness are likewise like this. *(Shariputra was a disciple of the Buddha. As the sutra is addressed to Shariputra, it is also addressed to you)
Oh Shariputra, all dharmas are forms of emptiness, not born, not destroyed; not tainted, not pure; without gain, without loss; so in emptiness there is no form, no sensation, perception, discrimination, awareness. No eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, mind; no color, sound, smell, taste, touch, phenomena; No realm of sight and so forth until no realm of consciousness. *(All dharmas makes reference to all beings and things)
No ignorance and no extinction of it and so forth until no old age and death and extinction of them. No suffering, no cause of suffering, no extinguishing, no path, no wisdom and no gain with nothing to attain; Kanzeon Bodhisattva lives the perfection of wisdom, with no hindrance in the mind, no hindrance, therefore no fear exists.
Far beyond deluded thoughts, this is Nirvana. All past, present, and future Buddhas live this perfection of wisdom and therefore attain complete and perfect enlightenment. Therefore know that Perfect Wisdom is a great mantra, is a great bright mantra; is a supreme mantra; an unsurpassable mantra. It is capable of relieving all suffering. This is true, not false.
So proclaim the perfection of wisdom mantra, proclaim this mantra and say: Gone, Gone, Gone Beyond, Gone forever Beyond, All Hail Living Enlightenment!
