garden/heart sutra.md

heart sutra

• #go https://plumvillage.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/2014-Thich-Nhat-Hanh-New-Heart-Sutra-letter-cc.pdf
• Adapted from https://plumvillage.org/about/thich-nhat-hanh/letters/thich-nhat-hanh-new-heart-sutra-translation#thays-letter, a work in progress (see also Mastodon posts):

Avalokiteshvara while practicing deeply in the insight that brings us to the other shore, discovered that the five Skandhas are empty, and with this realization overcame ill-being.

Sariputra: this Body (form) is empty and emptiness is this body. This body is none other than emptiness and emptiness is none other than this body.

The same is true of Feelings, Perceptions, Mental Formations, and Consciousness.

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Sariputra: all phenomena bear the mark of emptiness; their nature is that of: no birth no death, no being no non-being no defilement no purity, no increasing no decreasing.

That is why Emptiness, Body, Feelings, Perceptions, Mental Formations and Consciousness are not separate self entities.

• #pull gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha