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Great Wisdom Beyond Heart Sutra

To: antwerp@whisker.hubbard.ie
From: zendo@lysator.liu.se
Subject: Great Wisdom Beyond Heart Sutra
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 1994 22:00:28 -0800 (PST)

Here is the translation that used by the San Francisco Zen Center:
(any typos are mine)

Great Wisdom Beyond Wisdom Heart Sutra

Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva 
When practicing deeply the Prajna Paramita
Perceived that all five skandhas in their own being are empty
And was saved from all suffering.
O Shariputra, form does not differ from emptiness;
Emptiness does not differ from form.
That which is form is  emptiness; that which is emptiness, form.
The same is true of feelings, perceptions, formations, consciousness;
O Shariputra, all dharmas are marked with emptiness; 
They do not appear nor disappear,
Are not tainted nor pure, do not increase nor decrease.
Therefore in emptiness no form,
No feelings, no perceptions, no formations, no consciousness;
No eyes, no ears, no nose, no tongue, no body, no mind;
No color, no sound, no smell, no taste, no touch, no object of mind;
No realm of eyes and so forth until no realm of mind-consciousness;
No ignorance and also no extinction of it,
and until no old age and death and also no extinction of it;
No suffering, no origination, no stopping, no path;
No cognition, also no attainment.
With  nothing to attain the Bodhisattva depends on Prajna Paramita
And mind is no hindrance without any hindrance no fears exist;
Far apart from  every perverted view 
One dwells in Nirvana
In the three worlds all Buddhas depend on Prajna Paramita
And attain unsurpassed complete perfect enlightenment.
Therefore know the Prajna Paramita
Is the great trancendent  mantra
Is the great bright mantra
Is the utmost mantra
Is the supreme mantra
Which is able to relieve all suffering
And is true, not false.
So proclaim the Prajna Paramita mantra 
Proclaim the mantra that says:
GATE   GATE   PARAGATE   PARASAMGATE,   BODHI   SVAHA!

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