Below text is a brief practice around one of the most profound sutras: the
Heart Sutra.
'THE GREAT MOTHER'
TAKING REFUGE AND GENERATING BODHICITTA
Until we achieve enlightenment, I and all sentient beings,
Go for refuge to the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha.
Trough the virtues I collect by giving and the other perfections,
May I become a Buddha for the benefit of all. (3X)
PRELIMINARIES
NAMO - Guru, Teacher, Blessed One and the Great Mother Prajnaparamita, surrounded
by your Sons, the Buddhas of the ten directions and all Bodhisattvas; I prostrate
to this assembly, make offerings and go for refuge, please empower me with
your blessings.
THE SUTRA OF THE HEART OF THE PERFECTION OF WISDOM
Arya-Bhagavati-prajnaparamita-hrdaya-sutram (Homage to the holy Perfection
of Wisdom!)
Thus I have heard: At one time, the Blessed One was dwelling in Rajagriha
on Massed Vultures Mountain, together in one method with a great assembly
of monks and a great assembly of Bodhisattvas. At that time the Blessed One
was absorbed in the concentration of the countless aspects of phenomena called
Profound Illumination.
At that time also, Superior Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva, the Great Being,
was looking perfectly at the practice of the profound perfection of wisdom,
perfectly looking at the emptiness of inherent existence of the five aggregates
also.
Then, through the power of Buddha, the venerable Sariputra said to the Superior
Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva, the Great Being; "How should a son of the
lineage train who wishes to engage in the practice of the profound perfection
of wisdom?"
Thus he spoke, and the Superior Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva, the Great
Being, replied to the venerable Sariputra as follows;
"Sariputra, whatever son or daughter of the lineage wishes to engage in the
practice of the profound perfection of wisdom should look perfectly like this:
subsequently looking perfectly and correctly at the emptiness of inherent
existence of the five aggregates also.
Form is emptiness; emptiness is form. Emptiness is not other than form; form
also is not other than emptiness. Likewise, feeling, discrimination, compositional
factors and consciousness are empty. Shariputra, like this, all phenomena
are merely empty, having no characteristics. They are not produced and do
not cease. They have no defilement and no separation from defilement. They
have no decrease and no increase.
Therefore, Shariputra, in emptiness there is no form, no feeling, no discrimination,
no compostional factors, no consciousness. There is no eye, no ear, no nose,
no tongue, no body, no mind, no form, no sound, no smell, no taste, no tactile
object, no phenomenon. There is no eye element and so forth, upto no mind
element, and also upto no element of mental consciousness. There is no ignorance
and no exhaustion of ignorance, and so forth, upto no ageing and death and
no exhaustion of ageing and death. Likewise, there is no suffering, origin,
cessation or path; no exalted wisdom, no attainment and also no non-attainment.
Therefore, Shariputra, because there is no attainment, all Bodhisattvas rely
on and abide in the perfection of wisdom; their minds have no obstructions
and no fear. Passing utterly beyond perversity, they attain the final state
beyond sorrow. Also, all the Buddhas who perfectly reside in the three times,
relying upon the perfection of wisdom, become manifest and complete Buddhas
in the state of unsurpassed, perfect and complete enlightenment.
Therefore, the mantra of the perfection of wisdom, the mantra of great knowledge,
the unsurpassed mantra, the equal-to-the-unequalled mantra, the mantra that
thoroughly pacifies all suffering, since it is not false, should be known
as the truth. The mantra of the perfection of wisdom is proclaimed:
TAYATHA: OM GATE GATE PARAGATE PARASAMGATE BODHI SVAAHAA
Sariputra, a Bodhisattva, a Great Being, should train in the profound perfection
of wisdom like this."
Then the Blessd One arose from that concentration and said to the Superior
Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva, the Great Being, that he had spoken well.
"Good, good, O son of the lineage. It is like that. Since it is like that,
just as you have revealed, the profound perfection of wisdom should be practiced
in that way, and the Tathagatas will also rejoice."
When the Blessed One had said this, the venerable Shariputra, the Superior
Avalokiteshvara, the Great Being, that entire assembly of disciples, as well
as the worldly beings - gods, humans, demi-gods and spirits -, were delighted
and highly praised what had been spoken by the Blessed One.
RECITING THE MANTRA
TAYATHA OM GATE GATE PARAGATE PARASAMGATE BODHI SOHA
REQUESTS TO OVERCOME HINDRANCES
Great Mother, Prajnaparamita, and all the Buddhas ans Bodhisattvas of the
ten directions, through the power of your blessings may these true words of
mine be achieved. Just as before, when by contemplating the profound meaning
of the perfection of wisdom and reciting its words, Indra overcame all the
harm of maras, non-humans and so forth, in the same way, by my contemplating
the profound meaning of the perfection of wisdom and reciting its words:
May all the harm of maras, non-humans and so forth be overcome.(clap)
May they become non-existent. (clap)
May they be pacified.(clap)
May they be thoroughly pacified.(clap)
DEDICATION PRAYER
May all kinds of interferences, diseases and possessing spirits be pacified,
May we be separated from unfavourable conditions,
And may we achieve favourable conditions and everything excellent.
Through this fortune may there now be happiness and health.
