Hearty Sutra

Heart of Master Thich Quang Duc

Hearty Sutra

Atha Prajna Paramita Hridaya Sutrum

To All Wise taken Refuge:

Namah Sarva jnaya:

While Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva was practicing deep prajana-paramita, he enlightened on five skandahs, observed them empty, and is able to resolved all suffering and torment.

Shariputra, form does not differ from emptiness; emptiness does not differ from form. Form is emptiness, and emptiness is form. So too are perception, cognition, transformation, and consciousness.

Shariputra, all dharmas are empty in nature; they are beginning-less and end-less, neither tainted nor immaculate, neither wax nor wane. As a result, within empty space, there is no form, no perception, no cognition, no transformation and consciousness; there is no eyes, no ears, no nose, no tongue, no body and mind; there is no sight and sound, no smells and tastes, no touch, and no dharmas; there is no realm of sight, to the state of which there is no realm of mind-consciousness; there is no delusion nor cessation of delusion, no aging and death nor cessation of aging and death. There is no suffering, no sufferings either accumulated or ceased, and no path to cease sufferings. There is no wisdom and attainment, because nothing is gained, for Bodhisattva was relying on prajana-paramita; his heart is detached, thus unattached and fearless. He left perversion and delusion behind. Complete Nirvana!

Shariputra, every Buddha from three tenses relied upon on prajana-paramita to attain anuttara-samyak-sambodhi. Henceforth prajana-paramita is known as The Great Mantra, The Enlightening Mantra, The Supreme Mantra, and of The Unequal Class Mantras. No doubt it is able to cease all suffering and perversion.

Thus it is declared:

Gate gate paragate parasangata bodhi svaha!

Translated by A.Chang (263 of words in total, just one more than that of the Chinese Heart Sutra!)

(Please inform me if you think that there is error in translation)

P.S. after Master Thich Quang Duc's self-immolation to protect Buddhism and after his re-cremation, his heart still kept intact.

佛說法滅盡經

佛說法滅盡經

僧祐錄中失譯經人名今附宋錄

聞如是，一時，佛在拘夷那竭國。

如來三月當般涅槃，與諸比丘及諸菩薩，無央數眾來詣佛所，稽首于地，
世尊寂靜，默無所說，光明不現。

賢者阿難作禮白佛言：世尊前後說法，威光獨顯。
今大眾會，光更不現，何故如此？其必有故。願聞其意。

佛默不應，如是至三，佛告阿難：

吾涅槃後，法欲滅時，五逆濁世，魔道興盛。
魔作沙門，壞亂吾道，著俗衣裳，樂好袈裟，五色之服，
飲酒噉肉，殺生貪味。無有慈心，更相憎嫉。

時有菩薩辟支羅漢，精進修德一切敬待，
人所宗向教化平等，憐貧念老鞠育窮厄，
恒以經像令人奉事，作諸功德志性恩善，
不侵害人，捐身濟物，不自惜己，忍辱仁和。
設有是人，眾魔比丘咸共嫉之，誹謗揚惡，擯黜驅遣，不令得住。

自共於後，不修道德，寺廟空荒，無復修理，轉就毀壞。
但貪財物，積聚不散，不作福德。
販賣奴婢，耕田種植，焚燒山林，傷害眾生，無有慈心。
奴為比丘，婢為比丘尼。
無有道德，婬劮濁亂，男女不別。

令道薄淡，皆由斯輩。或避縣官，依倚吾道。求作沙門，不修戒律。
月半月盡，雖名誦戒，厭倦懈怠，不欲聽聞。抄略前後，不肯盡說。
經不誦習，設有讀者，不識字句。為強言是。不諮明者，貢高求名。
虛顯雅步，以為榮冀，望人供養。

眾魔比丘命終之後，精神當墮無擇地獄，五逆罪中。
餓鬼畜生，靡不經歷，恒河沙劫。罪竟乃出生在邊國，無三寶處。

法欲滅時，女人精進，恒作功德。
男子懈慢，不用法語，眼見沙門，如視糞土，無有信心。
法將殄沒，登爾之時，諸天泣淚。
水旱不調，五穀不熟。疫氣流行，死亡者眾。
人民勤苦，縣官計剋。不順道理，皆思樂亂。
惡人轉多，如海中沙。善者甚少，若一若二。

劫欲盡故，日月轉短，人命轉促。
四十頭白，男子婬劮，精盡夭命。
或壽六十。男子壽短，女人壽長。七八九十，或至百歲。
大水忽起，卒至無期，世人不信，故為有常。
眾生雜類，不問豪賤。沒溺浮漂，魚鱉食噉。

時有菩薩辟支羅漢。眾魔驅逐不預眾會。
三乘入山福德之地。恬怕自守，以為欣快，壽命延長。

諸天衛護，月光出世。得相遭值，共興吾道。
五十二歲，首楞嚴經。般舟三昧。先化滅去。
十二部經尋後復滅，盡不復現，不見文字。沙門袈裟自然變白。

吾法滅時，譬如油燈，臨欲滅時，光明更盛，於是便滅。
吾法滅時，亦如燈滅。自此之後，難可數說。

如是之後，數千萬歲，彌勒當下世間作佛。
天下泰平，毒氣消除。雨潤和適，五穀滋茂，樹木長大。
人長八丈，皆壽八萬四千歲。眾生得度，不可稱計。

賢者阿難作禮白佛：當何名斯經？云何奉持？

佛言：阿難，此經名為《法滅盡》，宣告一切，宜令分別。功德無量，不可稱計。

四部弟子，聞經悲慘惆悵，皆發無上聖真道意，悉為佛作禮而去

佛說法滅盡經

本經收於《大正藏》之「涅槃部」

心意頌

This post is written by a friend of mine:

心意頌

華嶽心意六合八法，又名圓通六合，先天三盤十二勢，迺身體力行之道。求技擊實用，不求姿勢之浮華，謂大工不巧，重劍無鋒。少談理論，概窮諸玄辯，如一毫置之太虛。

然拳腳含心意性命變化之功。故道家號以先天、玄牝，釋家稱圓通、圓覺。諸名門巨手，雖有側重，皆不出心意變化而同出一宗。

奇哉！心意無所不週而達流八方、闢彌六合，毫無罣礙，皓皓潔然，冥冥穹穹，虛無飄眇，包羅天地萬物而無所不熔冶，有鬼斧神功，故行者可不期然而然、莫知致而致。僅以此篇勉我等好三尺秋水之志士，航浮沈之筏軀，共遊達覺涯。

覺闕歌
少小離家老大回
鄉音無改鬢毛衰
兒童相見不相識
笑問客從何處來

拳腳心意歌(楞嚴經文殊師利法王子偈)
雖見諸根動
要以一機抽
息機歸寂然
諸幻成無性

A headless Snake

A headless Snake

Yajnadatta is an ancient serpent, sizable, powerful, yet gullible. He engulfed nations, rampaged and devoured them one by one. Out of desperation and compassionate, Mischievous Hippocratic, a wise man, went up to Yajnadatta. Serpent Yajnadatta seized him instantly, but being surprised by his composure.
“Why are you not afraid, puny humon?” puzzled Yajnadatta.
“Oh… the almighty Yajnadatta, you so powerful, yet so in pitfall!” replied Mischievous.
“Why? I owned you, land and your beasts,
How dare you say that, you frail spit?
Answer me with care you little weed,
Or rip you in half that you will be!” infuriated Yajnadatta.

“Though you own us, the land and beasts,
You can never own your head,
‘cause you cannot find it there.
In fact, if I have not informed thee,
You don’t even know that it’s not there.
Sympathize your head, I should,
Laughing at your plight out I will!”

Shocked and chocked by the wise man’s word, he gobbled down the poor Mischievous; then Yajnadatta embarked a journey to find his head; he searched every inch of his body, every inch of the land, but he failed miserably. Eventually he gave up, died and went straight to hell.

Being the demonic lord of the dark realm, Satan was most displeased with his new subject, Yajnadatta. For Yajnadatta is in such state of misery, no amount of punishment and torture, neither physical nor mental, was able to inflict much of suffering on the drifting serpent. In short, Satan was not entertained, and his authority challenged- other demonic nobles started to doubt his might, wisdom and sovereignty.

Then Satan came up with a wily scheme, he went up to Yajnadatta and knock his head with his rod.
“Knocking there is your head,
Lost it again ‘cause I stopped
If you want your head back again,
Do my bidding and it you re-gain! “

Realizing he had just found his head from Satan, and lost it again the instant Satan stopped knocking his head, Yajnadatta succumbed to Satan’s might and became one of Satan’s elite in his eternal quest of dark crusade.

Commentary:
The ideas of this fable came up while I was reading through Chapter four of Shurangama Sutra few days ago, realizing that it is about formation of the universe. Inadvertently, I came across a proverbial teaching from Buddha in Ghanavyūha sutra, pointing out the world of illusion is like entangled snakes. Adding elements of Hippocratic symbol, I created this fable. So what ever happened to Mischievous? Take a guess!

Please refer to the following:
From Shurangama Sutra
”The nature of enlightenment is essentially bright. It is false for you to make it bright enlightenment. 4:17

”Have you not heard of Yajnadatta in Shravasti who on impulse one morning held a mirror to his face and fell in love with the head in the mirror? He gazed at the eyes and eyebrows but got angry because he could not see his own face. He decided he must be a li mei ghost. Having lost all his bearings, he ran madly out. What do you think? Why did this person set out on a mad chase for no reason?. 4:101

From Ghanavyūha sutra
根蘊如蛇聚
境界緣所觸

Organs and Senses tangled like snakes,
Realm contacted then lingered !

You-niverse- a poem on Shurangama Sutra

You-niverse- a poem on Shurangama Sutra

To help you reading the poem, you firstly need to read Maitreya Bodhisattva's executive summary in Shurangama Sutra and The voyage of the mind, please double check Shurangama Sutra for proper meaning! I always wonder if a bodhisattva reincarnated French invented the word “universe.” You can break universe into “you” and “nivers”. Nivers sounds like nirvana in French, where syllable "s" is not pronounced. Façade deceives!

”I went on until, to the ends of emptiness, all the lands of the Thus Come One, whether pure or defiled, existent or non-existent, were transformations appearing from within my own mind. 5:118
”The Buddha asks about perfect penetration. I was intent upon the contemplation that the ten directions come only from consciousness. When the conscious mind is perfect and bright, one enters the perfection of the real. One leaves behind reliance on others and attachment to incessant calculating and attains the patience with the non-production of dharmas. This is the foremost method.” 5:119


You-niverse
Once confusing thought as heart,
Deluded in flesh everyone wants,
Don’t know cadaver
Mountain and River,
Space and earth are
Inside the Wonder
Of Immaculate Hearty Heart!
Pity throwing away the clear blue deep,
Lingering on the drifting bit,
Worst seeing bubble as seven seas.

You should know better it is true!
Even space is in you hearty heart,
Like little cloudy dot on the sky blue vast!
Not to mention all the worlds,
Drifted, engulfed by space surround.
If one unlock the hearty heart,
Space around vanished it will!

In an executive summary Maitreya told,
All Budda’s lands, radiant or rot,
Just transformation of hearty heart!
Leaving Dependence,
and Discernment,
Peeling off ten dimensions,
Finding your hearty heart
'Cause *You-niverse is what you found!

If you just don’t believe me,
Check on table the dinner plat!
Spin it to see if the center will rotate?
Dependence the platter, you make it true;
Discernment deluded you wonder in vain!