The Heart Sutra - (a word for word explanation)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 มิ.ย. 2019
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The Heart Sutra
Thus have I heard. At one time the Blessed One was dwelling at Vulture Peak Mountain, together with a great gathering of monks, nuns, and bodhisattvas. At that time the Blessed One entered into the Samadhi on the enumeration of phenomena called “Appearance of the Profound.”
At the same time the noble Avalokiteshvara, the Great Being, was engaging in the practice of the profound Perfection of Wisdom and clearly saw the 5 skandhas to be empty of any essential nature.
Then, by the inspiration of the Buddha, venerable Shariputra said to noble Avalokiteshvara,
“Wishing to practice the profound Perfection of Wisdom, how should a son or daughter of good lineage train?”
The noble Avalokiteshvara replied to venerable Shariputra “O Shariputra, a son or daughter of good lineage, who wishes to practice the profound Perfection of Wisdom should discern in this way: view the 5 skandhas to be empty of essential nature. Appearance is emptiness and emptiness is appearance. Appearance is not other than emptiness, emptiness is not other than appearance. Whatever is appearance, that is emptiness. Whatever is emptiness, that is appearance. In the same way feeling, recognition, karmic formations, and consciousness are emptiness.
Here, O Shariputra, all dharmas are marked with emptiness. They have no characteristics. There is no arising and no cessation. There is no purity and no impurity. There is no increase and no decrease.
Therefore, Shariputra, in emptiness there is no appearance, no feeling, no perception, no karmic formation, no consciousness; no eye, no ear, no nose, no tongue, no body, no mind; no appearance, no sound, no smell, no taste, no touch, no phenomena. There is no eye element up to no mind element, and so on, up to no mind-consciousness element.
There is no ignorance and no extinction of ignorance up to no aging and death and no extinction of aging and death. There is no suffering, no cause of suffering, no cessation of suffering and no path. No wisdom, no attainment, and no non-attainment.
Therefore, Shariputra, because the Bodhisattvas have no attainment, they rely on the Perfection of Wisdom. Since there is no obscuration of mind, there is no fear.
They transcend all error and attain complete Nirvana, passing beyond the bounds of sorrow.
All the Buddhas of the three times, by means of Perfect Wisdom, have fully awakened to the utmost true and complete Enlightenment.
Therefore the mantra of the Perfection of Wisdom is the great mantra, the mantra of great knowledge, the unsurpassed mantra, the mantra equal to the unequaled, the mantra that thoroughly pacifies all suffering. It is true because it is not false. The mantra of the Perfection of Wisdom is said in this way:
Om Gate Gate Paragate Parasamgate Bodhi Svaha
(Om, Gone, Gone, Gone Beyond, Gone Totally Beyond, Awakening, So Be It)
Then the Blessed One arose from that Samadhi and commended noble Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva, the Great Being: “Well done O son of good lineage, thus it is. One should practice the profound Perfection of Wisdom just as you have taught and all the Tathagatas will rejoice.
After the Blessed One thus spoke, venerable Shariputra, noble Avalokiteshvara, and the world with its gods, humans, asuras, and gandharvas rejoiced and praised the words of the Blessed One.
(Prepared for Nalanda Institute Olympia by Bob Harris)
This is a wonderfully clear and helpful explanation. Thank you for sharing this 🙏
Your description, towards the end of the talk, of the meaning behind “Gate gate para gate para sam gate bodhi swaha” was an opening moment. Thank you again.
Dear Mr. Harris,
Thank you for explaining the Heart Sutra. It is something I have chanted since October 1974.
Your explanations are easy to understand and deeply appreciated. Gassho.
Absolutely incredible. I can’t thank you enough! What a gem you have shared. Thank you, Much gratitude.
I chant the Heart Sutra daily & this has helped tremendously Thank You Sir 🙏🏻♥️
I can't thank you enough. Finally this is beginning to make sense to me. I know I can find those small moments and work on myself within them! I'm going to watch this again and again. It's been a real 'lightbulb' moment!
Wonderful!
Yes! This is on a loop for me today 🎉❤❤❤thank you sir! Formless in form to live the path, to aftyalize the realizations 🎉❤ This sutra is helpful with reminders for my mind to be a better friend to my heart and the heart of all which are one 🎉❤
Actualize* that walk, thanks for the support
There should be millions of subscribers to this channel from Fiji.
Much gratitude to all who made this possible.
profoundly simple...
Folks in the west who are fortunate enough to listen will
benifit greatly as I have.
Thank you very much
Thanks so much for the word for word explanation! so very much helpful for us to understand the actual meaning.
🙏🙏🙏 Thank you for sharing. Very comprehensive knowledge
Place your palms one inch apart . The space of what seams empty is where the energy of oneness can be felt . Empty and full in the same moment .❤❤❤
Namaste ❤
I love your teachings. Thank you so much. Amituofo.
Thank you Bobb for this teaching which helped me to understand the sutra a little better. TKANK YOU SIR.
Thank you teacher
Very good thank you
I have learnt so much from this talk and indeed, all your talks. You have had an amazingly rich life and it can be seen in your manner. I bless you for your gift and m thankful for your acquired wisdom. Blessings be upon you! 🙏🙏🌸🌺💖🌼
Excellent talk. Not tedious at all. Thank you for sharing it with us ❤️
Glad you enjoyed it!
Wonderful and honoured to be able to listen to this dharma. 🙏
Very practical, down to earth and authentic... thank you for sharing
Thanks for watching!
Wonderful explanation of Buddha's wisdom which distills down to perfect realization as far as we humans can understand and practice it. D
“Tedium” that was Brilliant
Very pure , distilled . Thank you for sharing
This really is incredible. Wow! Many thanks!
Thank you so much for your talk. This is truly inspiring!
Thank you - I grew up with the Heart Sutra and have known it "by heart" since the age of 8 - second gen-zen - this was he best explanation I've come across
Perfect wisdom. Thank you for this precious discourse.
Very clear and educational thank you.
Deep Bow Dear One. ❤🙏❤️
Just read the Chinese version and came across your explanations ! Thank you for making this .
Absolutely awesome! Thank you!
Thank you, You have deepened my understanding of buddhist teachings. I subscribed to watch more of your teachings, please upload more videos.
Profound. Thank you.
Thank you 🙏🏽
Appreciated very much for the profound teaching. Sadhu sadhu sadhu 🙏
Köszönöm🌷
Namo Buddhaye 🙏🏻
What a marvellous exposition! So enlightening! I have subscribed to your channel.
Wonderfully explained; thank you for this valuable Dharma talk 🙏
My pleasure 😊 Wisdom is the mother of all Buddhas, of all Awakened Ones
Thank you very much for sharing your deep knowledge of Buddhist teachings. I found your talk very informative and interesting. Although my initial interest lies with Dao/Tao, it intersected with Buddhist thought. I will be tuning in to listen to more of your talks.
So good. 🙏
Glad you think so!
Profound !
I'm very grateful for your teaching base on your elebrated hard work, deep insight of this supreme wisdom sutra - The Prajna Paramita Hrdaya Sutram ( or the Heart Sutra), along with your vast dhama knowledges and precious personal dhama practice experiences. It is a very rare teaching that I am lucky enough to encounter. Thank you very much!🙏🙏🏽🙏🏽
❤🙏 Thank you for explaining emptiness.
So many pounce on that ONE word to say "the Buddha doesn't believe in God and says everything is empty "of God".
He wasn't even addressing God in the word.
Its our western translation that uses the word emptiness.
Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful discourse. The presentation is flawless.
Glad it was helpful!
Was great, Thankyou
You are welcome!
This is a very nice talk. One thing I would mention not regarding only this lecture is to alter teaching that it is much more possible for us all to gain insight and that is not so incredible far away and achieveble only by amazing talents. Bring it down to the earth to the real life not creating legends and how far is all to gain....
🐉💧💓💦🐉 Namo Buddha ❣️
THANK YOU!! I wish their audio was a little clear due to the amount of info that needs to be processed. :) THANK YOU
Really amazing work! Thank you for making that and also thanks to the destiny ! By the way could you please make one more for the Diamond Cutter Sutra
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Not tedious at all. Very good
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Does anybody know any texts to read about the quoted "four upside-down views"?
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Would you say that the dharmas mean the same as Kalapas discussed in the Abidhamma? Namely, atoms which exist for split seconds snd then disappear?
Xie xie, Laoshi! Amituofo!
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Thank you so very much. I have a question, how does one cultivate compassion? Can it even be cultivated? Thank you
Are you familiar with the book The Bodhisattva'Way of Life, by Master Shantideva? It describes the path of the two pillars of enlightenment being wisdom and compassion.
@@uschischueller4643 self cherishing is an obstacle to cultivation of compassion."Fake it til you make it!"
Thank you for your teachings.I don't understand one thing : Why the name of my romanian ancestor Zalmoxis in your yt channel? What's the link?
oI was inspired by Mircea Eliade's "ZIalmoxis" so when it came to finding a name for the channel, it seemed like a good choice. Hooray for your ancestor!!
@@zalmoxisfoundation8304 thank you for the answer 🤗.
Seems great. I still disagree about around 23:00 whilst we are all interconnected and earlier all affect all, meant we are One. We cannot have small one or even big one. Just interconnection and total emptiness. Not really become the One. Danger to have that one and that One idea.
Why?
when english subs put word darkness, the word he say is dharmas.
The dharmas sound like subatomic particles, but I suppose that's another illusion. Interbeing works there...
Avalokitesvara and Quan Yin are synonymous? Ohhhh, thank you.
And ignorance? Just ignore it! ;*[}
Seriously, thank you for the clarification.
Might as well leap
"Emptiness is not explicable in words!" - And then he proceeds to explain emptiness, IN WORDS! I assume he should have said the experience of emptiness is not fully describable in words. Actually, the most precise intellectual understanding of emptiness is to be gained from Madhyamaka Buddhism (I am pretty sure Tsongkhapa said an intellectual understanding was useful). If you read Madhyamaka discussions of the term 'emptiness' (sunyata) you will find that it refers to the formulation - NOT-EXISTENT, NOT-NON-EXISTENT, NOT-BOTH(EXISTENT & NON-EXISTENT), NOT(NEITHER(EXISTENT NOR NON-EXISTENT)).
As the Madhyamika Bhavaviveka indicated the character of reality is:
Neither existent, nor nonexistent, both existent and nonexistent, nor neither. …true reality …is free from …is free from these four possibilities.
This is not a concoction put together in a moment of mystical intoxication. It is the precise description of the ultimate nature of reality, in fact it is also a precise description of the existential configuration of a quantum field. As the quantum physicist Giancarlo Ghiradhi points out the state of a quantum superposition is (using a chair as a convenient classical level example) -
How can it be understood that, attached to these potentialities, is a nonepistemic probability that in a subsequent measurement of position the chair will be found here or there (which is equivalent to asserting that, before the measurement was carried out, the chair could be neither here nor there, nor in both places, nor in neither place)?
You can find this formulation a few places in quantum discussions, and mathematical analysis shows it is correct. A quantum field has this existential configuration of the four extremes. - quantumbuddhism.org
I think he means as you take apart a car you realise there is no car in it. No car-ness.
So a human is more a process, it is not a thing.
So there are no objects.
Only relationships, processes, reflection.
Those words describe consciousness.
All you see is the processes, the reflection of consciousness
All you are is consciousness 😅
Now act accordingly.
Just kidding. See if it is true for you. To understand is cool. To embody it is the test of time.
When i fail to be loving, it brings me compassion for all that tried.
For all beings.
For all that is in the state of being.❤
I recognize myself in others.
That is love.
Forgiveness peace joy contentment , all rises fom love.
Love is what you are.
Love is what you seek.
"Know thy self" Delphi
"I know nothing " Socrates
"Nothing pases with ease through the eye of a needle" Jesus
Science: the objective objectfication of objects is trying to find a "thing"😅
The more it fails, the more it succeed, since there is no-thing . But it can't understand that. 😅😢
True wisdom knows the most powerful deity is male.
Because.
In him lies the seed.
The female is the field. The soil to bear the seed.
Which is why the female is bigger. Plumper. Able to be fed off of and yet maintain her breadth.
The male is stronger in some respects. The female is stronger in other respects. But the true strength of the female is in demonstrating her ability to respect her place as mate, not leader. For by being the mate, she becomes the leader. By becoming last, one becomes first. The most powerful, perfect leader leads without being known as the leader.
This whole ideology is based in fallible incarnation.
True wisdom transcends these ideas. Its like a match flame compared to an atom bomb.
Cheers.