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Heart Sutra


Translation/pinyin/lyrics by Ho@multistars.com

Heart Sutra

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This song is based on the famous prayer, we take no credit for the translation

When the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara
Was coursing in the deep
Prajnaparamita
He saw that the five skandhas were empty
Thus he overcome all ills and suffering
O Sariputra,
Form does not differ from the Void
And the Void does not differ from form
Form is the Void
And the Void is form

The same is true for feelings
Conceptions impulses and consciousness
O Sariputra, the characteristics

Of the voidness of all dharmas are not arising
Not ceasing
Not defiled
Not pure
Not increasing
Not decreasing

Therefore
In the Void there are no forms
No feelings
Conceptions
Impulses
Consciousness
No eye, ear, nose,

Tongue, body or mind
No form, sound, smell, taste, touch or mind-object
No eye elements
Until we come to

No elements of consciousness
No ignorance and also no ending of ignorance
Until we come to no old age and

Death and no ending of old age and death
Also, there is no truth of suffering
Of the cause of suffering
Of the cessantion of suffering or of the path
There is no wisdom, and

There is no attainment whatover
Because there is nothing to be attained
A Bodhisattva relying on

Prajnaparamita
Has no obstruction in his mind
Because there is no obstruction, he has no fear, and

Passes far beyond all confused imagination and reach Ultimate Nirvana
The Buddhas has in the past, present, and future, also by relying on the

Prajnapatram
Have attained Supreme Enlightenment
Therefore, the

Prajnaparamita is the great magic spell
Is great spell of illumination
Is the supreme spell

Is the unequalled spell
Which can be truly protect one from all suffering without fail

Therefore, he uttered the spell of Prajnaparamita, saying
Gate, Gate,

Parasemgate, Bodhi-savaha