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The Heart Sutra
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"The Heart Sutra" Quotes

A profound and concise Buddhist scripture that illuminates the essence of emptiness and wisdom.

Quotes

Form is emptiness, emptiness is form.

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philosophyemptiness

No eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, mind; no color, sound, smell, taste, touch, or object of mind.

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perceptionemptiness

No suffering, origination, extinction, path; no wisdom, attainment, or nonattainment.

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enlightenmentwisdom

No ignorance and no end to ignorance, and so forth, until no old age and death and no end to old age and death.

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impermanencesuffering

No suffering, no cause of suffering, no cessation of suffering, and no path; no understanding, no attainment.

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sufferingenlightenment

No gain, thus Bodhisattvas live this Prajna Paramita with no hindrance in the mind.

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bodhisattvawisdom

No obstacles, therefore no fear; far beyond all inverted views, Nirvana is already here.

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nirvanaenlightenment

No past, present, or future, no birth, death, or rebirth; and no suffering, cause, or end to suffering.

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impermanencesuffering

No thought, no mind, no delusion, and no enlightenment; no eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, or mind.

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perceptionenlightenment

No form, no sound, no smell, no taste, no touch, no object of mind; no realm of sight, and so forth, until no realm of mind consciousness.

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perceptionemptiness