Heart Sutra (Excerpt Translation)
When Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara
was practicing deeply the Perfection of Wisdom (Prajñāpāramitā),
he clearly saw that all five aggregates are empty,
thus transcending all suffering.
Form is emptiness; emptiness is form.
Emptiness is not separate from form; form is not separate from emptiness.
The same is true for feelings, perceptions, formations, and consciousness.
All dharmas are marked with emptiness:
they neither arise nor cease,
are neither defiled nor pure,
neither increase nor decrease.
Therefore, in emptiness there is no form,
no feeling, perception, formation, or consciousness;
no eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, or mind;
no color, sound, smell, taste, touch, or object of mind;
no realm of eyes, and so forth until no realm of mind-consciousness.
There is no ignorance, and also no ending of ignorance,
and so forth until no old age and death,
and also no ending of old age and death.
There is no suffering, cause, cessation, or path;
no wisdom and no attainment,
for there is nothing to attain.
