The Heart Teaching of the Perfection of Wisdom with Obstacle Remover

Prajnaparamita, the Perfection of Wisdom, inexpressible by speech or thought, unborn, unceasing, with nature
like the sky, can only be experienced by discriminating awareness wisdom.

Prajnaparamita, Mother of the Victorious Ones of the Three Times, I praise and prostrate!

Homage to the Bhagavati Prajnaparamita! Thus have I heard:

Once the Blessed One was dwelling in Rajagriha at Vulture Peak Mountain, together with a great gathering of the
Sangha of Renunciates and a great gathering of the Sangha of Bodhisattvas.

At that time the Blessed One entered the concentration that expresses the phenomena called “profound
illumination”. At the same time noble Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva Mahasattva, while practicing the profound
Prajnaparamita, saw in this way:

The five skandhas (form, feelings, perceptions, mental formations, and consciousness) are empty by nature.

Then, through the power of the Buddha, Venerable Shariputra said to Noble Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva
Mahasattve, “How should a son or daughter of noble family train, who wishes to practice the profound
Prajnaparamita?” Addressed in this way, Noble Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva Mahasattva, said to Venerable
Shariputra:

“O Shariputra, a son or daughter of noble family who wishes to practice the profound Prajnaparamita should see
in this way - see the five skandhas to be empty by nature.

Form is emptiness, emptiness is form; emptiness is no other than form; form is no other than emptiness. In the
same way feelings, perceptions, mental formations, and consciousness are emptiness.

Thus, Shariputra, all phenomena are emptiness. There are no characteristics. There is no birth and no death.
There is no impurity and no purity. There is no decrease and no increase.

Therefore, Shariputra, in emptiness, there is no form, no feeling, no perception, no mental 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 experience; no sphere of eye up to no sphere of mind; no sphere of phenomena, no sphere of
mind consciousness; no ignorance, no end of ignorance up to no old age and death, no end of old age and death;
no suffering, no origin of suffering, no cessation of suffering, no path, no wisdom, no attainment, and no non-
attainment.

Therefore, Shariputra, since the Bodhisattvas have no attainment, they abide by means of Prajnaparamita – the
Perfection of Wisdom.

Since there is no obscuration of mind, there is no fear. Bodhisattvas cut-through illusion and realize complete
nirvana (liberation of mind from all afflictions, vexations and confusion). All the Buddhas of the three times, by
means of Prajnaparamita, fully awaken to unsurpassable, true, complete liberation.

Therefore, the great mantra of Prajnaparamita, the mantra of great insight, the unsurpassed mantra, the
unequalled mantra, the mantra that calms all suffering should be known as truth, since there is no deception.

The Perfection of Wisdom Mantra is said in this way:

TADYATHA OM GATE GATE PARAGATE PARASAMGATE BODHI SVAHA

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THUS, Shariputra, the Bodhisattva Mahasattva should train in the profound Prajnaparamita – the Perfection of
Wisdom.

“Then the Blessed One arose from that concentration and praised noble Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva
Mahasattva, saying:

“Good, good, O son of noble family, thus it is, O son of noble family, thus it is. One should practice the profound
Prajnaparamita just as you have taught and all the Tathagatas will rejoice.”

When the Blessed One had said this, Venerable Shariputra, and Noble Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva
Mahasattva, that whole assembly and the world with its gods, humans, asuras and gandharvas rejoiced and
praised the words of the Blessed One.

Thus concludes the Heart Teaching of the Perfection of Wisdom - Transcendent Knowledge.

Namo! Homage to the Guru (Preceptor who facilitates a shift in consciousness)! Homage to the Buddha! Homage
to the Dharma! Homage to the Sangha!

Homage to the Great Mother, Prajnaparamita!

Through the power and strength of paying homage to you, may these words of mine come true! Just as long ago
the king of the gods, Indra, by the power and strength of contemplating on the profound meaning of the
Prajnaparamita, the Great Mother, and reciting its words, was able to avert the demonic forces of negativity, so in
the very same way may I too, through the power and strength of contemplating on the profound meaning of the
Prajnaparamita, the Great Mother, and reciting its words, avert (clap hands) all the negative influences which
prevents me and those around me from realizing the Noble Path!

May (clap hands) they be annihilated! May (clap hands) they be rendered harmless! May they be completely
pacified!

Everything that arises interdependently is unceasing and unborn, neither non-existent nor everlasting, neither
coming nor going, neither several in meaning nor with a single meaning.

All concepts and duality are pacified; to this teaching, the words of the fully enlightened Awakened One, Buddha, I
pay homage!

All things are pure by nature. I am pure by nature.

I rest in the Nature of Mind – Relax Body, Relax Mind