Thursday, August 9, 2007

I want you to read this before you come to the closing reception

please just read this and interpret based on your own experience.
This is the perception of the reality which I have been unconsciously aware of, though I understand throuhg Japanese translation, not English translation like this.
Please feel it! And keep this in your mind when you interact with my project


Panjna Paramita Hridaya Sutra
Adoration to the Omniscient

The venerable Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara, performing his study in the deep Prajna Paramita(perfection of wisdom), thought thus: There are the five Skandhas, and these he considered as by their nature empty (phenomenal).
O Sariputra, 'he said, 'form here is emptiness, and emptiness indeed is form. Emptiness is not different from form., form is not different from emptiness.
What is form that is emptiness. What is emptiness that is form., ‘The same applies to perception, name, conception, and knowledge. ''Here, O Sariputra, all things have the character of emptiness, they have no beginning, no end, they are faultless and not faultless, they are not imperfect and not perfect.
Therefore, O Sariputra, in this emptiness there is no form, no perception, no name, no concepts, no knowledge.
No eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, mind. No form, sound, smell, taste, touch, objects.
'There is no eye' &c., till we come to' there is no mind'.(What is left out here are the eighteen Dhatus or aggregates, viz eye, form, vision; ear sound, hearing; nose, odor, smelling; tongue, flavor, tasting; body, touch, feeling; mind, object, thought.)
There is no knowledge, no ignorance, no destruction of knowledge, no destruction of ignorance,'&c,till we come to 'there is no decay and death, no knowledge, no obtaining of Nirvara'.
A man who has approached the Prajna Paramita of the Bodhisattva dwells enveloped in consciousness.
*But when the envelopment of consciousness has been annihilated, then he becomes free of all fear, beyond the reach of change, enjoying Final Nirvana.
All Buddhas of the past, present, and future, after approaching the Prajna Paramita, have awoke to the highest perfect knowledge.
'Therefore one ought to know the great verse of the Prajna Paramita, the verse of the wisdom, the unsurpassed verse, the peerless verse, which appeases all pain---it is truth, because it is no false---the verse proclaimed in the Prajna Paramita;'O wisdom, gone, gone, bone to the other shore, landed at the other shore, Svaha!'.

Thus ends the heart of the Prajna Paramita.

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