1. When the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara had deeply understood the Supreme Wisdom (Prajñā Pāramitā), he realized that the five aggregates (skandhas) making up a person were nothing but an illusion, and with this he was delivered from all sorrow and suffering.
2. O Śāriputra, the material form (rūpa) is no different from the void of shapeless emptiness (śūnyatā); the material form is the same as emptiness, and emptiness the same as the material form. The other aggregates —sensation, discrimination, thinking, consciousness — all are the same way.
3. O Śāriputra, everything is that way: neither begun nor ended, neither impure nor pure, neither increasing nor decreasing. And so within the void there is no material form, and no sensation, no discrimination, no thinking, and no consciousness.
4. There is not [whatever is shown us by our eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body or mind], no form, sound, smell, taste, touch, or reasoning.
5. There are no [eighteen] elements (dhātu) of sensation from sight to consciousness (vijññaṇa), or [twelve] links from ignorance (avidyā) and its ending to old age and death (jarāmaraṇa) and their ending. There are even no “Four Noble Truths,” nor wisdom, nor attainment
6. Because there is no attainment, bodhisattvas who rely on Supreme Wisdom, having unworried hearts, being without hindrance, have no fear,
7. and transcend illusion to reach highest Nirvana. Because all buddhas of the three ages —past, present, and future— attained Supreme Wisdom,
8. they attained “unsurpassed, complete, and perfect enlightenment” (anuttara-samyak-saṃbodhi).
9. Thus we know that the mantra (zhòu 咒) of Supreme Wisdom is a mantra of consummate splendor, unsurpassed, unequalled, truly able to relieve all suffering.
10. It is never true and never false, it should be spoken saying: Gate!, Gate! Pāra-gate! Pārasaṃ-gate! Bodhi. Śvāhā!
11. The Heart Sutra
Original Created: 2009
Painting: Chinese Calligraphy Booklet
Series: Huang Mian Calligraphy
Size: 13.4H * 9.4W Inches