Buddhist Chant - Heart Sutra (Mandarin) by Imee Ooi

This is an enchanting way to enter meditation, through the love of the heart. Have we lost our values? Have we compromised our integrity? Have we become dishonest and really do not know what direction we are going? Have difficult people influenced us in ways we know we should not have? Have we lost our innocence and do we feel fragmented? This chant along with so many other ways to heal and become whole can restore us to the brightness that we really are. There are many methods. Different ways are suited for different people in their own unique way.

Heart Sutra (Mandarin)
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The Compassionate Buddha Aviloketesvara Chanted this Beautiful Sutra--which was a form of Quan Yin.


Pinyin

jie di jie di bo luo jie di bo luo seng jie di pu ti sa po he (3x)
guan zi zai pu sa xing shen bo re po luo mi duo shi
zhao jian wu yun jie kong du yi qie ku e
she li zi se bu yi kong kong bu yi se
se ji shi kong kong ji shi se
shou xiang xing shi yi fu ru shi
she li zi shi zhu fa kong xiang
bu sheng bu mie bu gou bu jing bu zeng bu jian

shi gu kong zhong wu se wu shou xiang xing shi
wu yan er bi she shen yi wu se sheng xiang wei chu fa
wu yian jie nai zhi wu yi shi jie
wu wu ming yi wu wu ming jin
nai zhi wu lao si yi wu lao si jin
wu ku ji mie dao wu zhi yi wu de yi wu suo de gu

pu ti sa duo yi bo re po luo mi duo gu
xin wu gua ai wu gua ai gu wu you kong bu
yuan li dian dao meng xiang jiu jing nie pan
san shi zhu fo yi bo re po luo mi duo gu
de a nou duo luo san miao san pu ti
gu zhi bo re po luo mi duo shi da shen zhou
shi da ming zhou shi wu shang zhou shi wu deng deng zhou
neng chu yi qie ku zhen shi bu xu
gu shuo bo re po luo mi duo zhou ji shuo zhou yue
jie di jie di bo luo jie di bo luo seng jie di pu ti sa po he (3x)

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http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/heartsutra.html
translation:   from the Website:  
 
 
 
Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, meditating deeply on Perfection of Wisdom, saw clearly that the five aspects of human existence are empty*, and so released himself from suffering.  Answering the monk Sariputra, he said this:

Body is nothing more than emptiness,
emptiness is nothing more than body.
The body is exactly empty,
and emptiness is exactly body. The other four aspects of human existence --
feeling, thought, will, and consciousness --
are likewise nothing more than emptiness,
and emptiness nothing more than they.
All things are empty:
Nothing is born, nothing dies,
nothing is pure, nothing is stained,
nothing increases and nothing decreases.
So, in emptiness, there is no body,
no feeling, no thought,
no will, no consciousness.
There are no eyes, no ears,
no nose, no tongue,
no body, no mind.
There is no seeing, no hearing,
no smelling, no tasting,
no touching, no imagining.
There is nothing seen, nor heard,
nor smelled, nor tasted,
nor touched, nor imagined.
There is no ignorance,
and no end to ignorance.
There is no old age and death,
and no end to old age and death.
There is no suffering, no cause of suffering,
no end to suffering, no path to follow.
There is no attainment of wisdom,
and no wisdom to attain.
The Bodhisattvas rely on the Perfection of Wisdom,
and so with no delusions,
they feel no fear,
and have Nirvana here and now.
All the Buddhas,
past, present, and future,
rely on the Perfection of Wisdom,
and live in full enlightenment.
The Perfection of Wisdom is the greatest mantra.
It is the clearest mantra,
the highest mantra,
the mantra that removes all suffering.
This is truth that cannot be doubted.
Say it so:

Gaté,
gaté,
paragaté,
parasamgaté.
Bodhi!
Svaha!

Which means...

Gone,
gone,
gone over,
gone fully over.
Awakened!
So be it!

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* Emptiness is the usual translation for the Buddhist term Sunyata (or Shunyata).  It refers to the fact that no thing -- including human existence -- has ultimate substantiality, which in turn means that no thing is permanent and no thing is totally independent of everything else.  In other words, everything in this world is interconnected and in constant flux.  A deep appreciation of this idea of emptiness thus saves us from the suffering caused by our egos, our attachments, and our resistance to change and loss.