THE HEART OF PRAJNA PARAMITA SUTRA
　　般若波羅蜜多經的核心
　　When Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva was practicing the profound prajna  paramita, he illuminated the five skandhas and saw that they are all empty, and  he crossed beyond all suffering and difficulty.
　　Shariputra, form does not differ from emptiness; emptiness does not differ  from form. Form itself is emptiness; emptiness itself is form. So, too, are  feeling, cognition, formation, and consciousness.
　　Shariputra, all dharmas are empty of characteristics. They are not  produced, not destroyed, not defiled, not pure; and they neither increase nor  diminish. Therefore, in emptiness there is no form, feeling, cognition,  formation, or consciousness; no eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, or mind; no  sights, sounds, smells, tastes, objects of touch, or dharmas; no field of the  eyes up to and including no field of mind consciousness; and no ignorance or  ending of ignorance, up to and including no old age and death or ending of old  age and death. There is no suffering , no accumulating, no extinction, no way,  no understanding and no attaining.
　　Because nothing is attained, the Bodhisattva through reliance on prajna  paramita is unimpeded in his mind. Because there is no impediment, he is not  afraid, and he leaves distorted dream-thinking far behind. Ultimately  Nirvana!
　　All Buddhas of the three periods of time attain Anuttara-samyak-sambodhi  through reliance on prajna paramita. Therefore, know that prajna paramita is a  great spiritual mantra, a great bright mantra, a supreme mantra, an unequalled  mantra. It can remove all suffering; it is genuine and not false. That is why  the mantra of prajna paramita was spoken. Recite it like this: Gaté gaté  paragaté parasamgaté bodhi svaha!