{"id":368,"date":"2010-11-12T15:34:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T15:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2010\/11\/song-of-the-heart-mind\/"},"modified":"2011-11-01T15:03:31","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T19:03:31","slug":"song-of-the-heart-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2010\/11\/song-of-the-heart-mind.html","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Heart Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ivYC5lNFv_g?fs=1\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ivYC5lNFv_g?fs=1<\/a>\n<\/p><p>Like pretty much all Zendoids, I love the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Heart_Sutra\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><i>Heart Sutra<\/i><\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>If you have trouble following the text on the video, here\u2019s Robert Aitken\u2019s version together with a transliteration of the Sino-Japanese\u2026<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"\" name=\"HEART\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">MAKA HANNYA HARAMITA SHIN GYO<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"\" name=\"HEART\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">The Great Prajna-Paramita Heart Sutra<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"\" name=\"HEART\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">KAN JI ZAI BO SA GYO- JIN HAN-NYA HA RA MI TA JI <br>Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva, practicing deep Prajna Paramita, <br>SHO- KEN GO ON KAI KU- DO IS-SAI KU YAKU. <br>clearly saw that all five skandhas are empty,  transforming anguish and distress. <br>SHA RI SHI SHIKI FU I KU- KU- FU I SHIKI  <br>Shariputra, form is no other than emptiness,  emptiness no other than form; <br>SHIKI SOKU ZE KU- KU- SOKU ZE SHIKI <br>form is exactly emptiness, emptiness exactly form;  <br>JU SO- GYO- SHIKI YAKU BU NYO ZE <br>sensation, perception, mental reaction, consciousness are also like this. <br>SHA RI SHI ZE SHO HO- KU- SO- FU SHO- FU METSU  <br>Sha-riputra, all things are essentially empty\u2013  not born, not destroyed; <br>FU KU FU JO- FU ZO- FU GEN <br>not stained, not pure; without loss, without gain.  <br>ZE KO KU- CHU- MU SHIKI MU JU SO- GYO- SHIKI  <br>Therefore in emptiness there is no form, no sensation,  perception, mental reaction, consciousness;  <br>MU GEN-NI BI ZES-SHIN I <br>no eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, mind, <br>MU SHIKI SHO- KO- MI SOKU HO- <br>no color, sound, smell, taste, touch, object of thought;  <br>MU GEN KAI NAI SHI MU I SHIKI KAI <br>no seeing and so on to no thinking;<br>MU MU MYO- YAKU MU MU MYO- JIN<br>no ignorance and also no ending of ignorance,<br>NAI SHI MU RO- SHI YAKU MU RO- SHI JIN<br>and so on to no old age and death,<br>and also no ending of old age and death;<br>MU KU SHU METSU DO-Y<br>no anguish, cause of anguish, cessation, path;<br>MU CHI YAKU MU TOKU I MU SHO TOK\u2019KO<br>no wisdom and no attainment. Since there is nothing to attain, <br>BO DAI SAT-TA E HAN-NYA HA RA MI TA KO<br>the Bodhisattva lives by Prajna Paramita, <br>SHIM-MU KEI GE MU KEI GE KO MU U KU FU<br>with no hindrance in the mind; no hindrance and therefore no fear; <br>ON RI IS-SAI TEN DO- MU SO- KU GYO- NE HAN <br>far beyond delusive thinking, right here is Nirvana. <br>SAN ZE SHO BUTSU E HAN-NYA HA RA MI TA KO <br>All Buddhas of past, present, and future live by Prajna Paramita <br>TOKU A NOKU TA RA SAM-MYAKU SAM-BO DAI<br>attaining Anuttara-samyak-sambodhi.<br>KO CHI HAN-NYA HA RA MI TA<br>Therefore know that Prajna Paramita<br>ZE DAI JIN SHU ZE DAI MYO- SHU<br>is the great sacred mantra, the great vivid mantra,<br>ZE MU JO- SHU ZE MU TO- TO- SHU<br>the unsurpassed mantra, the supreme mantra,<br>NO- JO IS-SAI KU SHIN JITSU FU KO<br>which completely removes all anguish. <br>This is truth not mere formality. <br>KO SETSU HAN-MYA HA RA MI TA SHU<br>Therefore set forth the Prajna Paramita mantra, <br>SOKU SETSU SHU WATSU<br>set forth this mantra and proclaim:<br>GYA TEI GYA TEI HA RA GYA TEI HARA SO- GYA TEI<br>BO JI SOWA KA HAN-NYA SHIN GYO<br>Gate gate paragate parasamgate Bodhi sva-ha-!<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/33904114-2580354624068919865?l=monkeymindonline.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like pretty much all Zendoids, I love the Heart Sutra. 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