Heart Sutra - Chinese and English

「心經」 是佛大弟子舍利子，問佛如何修持般若法門，如何成佛的方法。佛乃叫觀自在菩薩答覆曰:「三世諸佛以般若波羅密多故，得阿耨多羅三藐三菩提。」故曰: 般若是諸佛之母。

The "Heart Sutra" is the method of Shariputra(舍利子), the great disciple of the Buddha, who asked the Buddha how to practice the Prajna method and how to become a Buddha. The Buddha asked Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva(觀自在菩薩) to reply: "Through Prajna Paramita(般若), all the Buddhas of the past, the present and the future have obtained Anuttara-samyak-sambodhi(成佛)." Therefore, it is said: Prajna is the mother of all Buddhas.

觀自在菩薩，行深般若波羅蜜多時，照見五蘊皆空，度一切苦厄。 Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, when practicing the profound Prajnaparamita, saw that all five aggregates are empty and transcended all suffering.

舍利子，色不異空，空不異色。色即是空，空即是色。受想行識亦復如是。

Shariputra, form does not differ from emptiness, and emptiness does not differ from form. Form is emptiness, and emptiness is form. Feeling, perception, mental formations, and consciousness are also like this.

舍利子，是諸法空相，不生不滅，不垢不淨，不增不減。

Shariputra, all dharmas are marked with emptiness— they neither arise nor cease, are neither defiled nor pure, neither increase nor decrease.

是故空中無色，無受想行識，無眼耳鼻舌身意，無色聲香味觸法，無眼界，乃至無意識界。

Therefore, in emptiness, there is no form, feeling, perception, mental formations, or consciousness; no eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, or mind; no form, sound, smell, taste, touch, or object of mind; no realms of sight and so forth, until no realms of consciousness.

無無明亦無無明盡，乃至無老死，亦無老死盡。無苦集滅道，無智亦無得。

There is no ignorance and no cessation of ignorance, and so forth, until no aging and death and no cessation of aging and death. There is no suffering, origination, cessation, or path; there is no wisdom, and no attainment.

以無所得故，菩提薩埵，依般若波羅蜜多故，心無罣礙，無罣礙故，無有恐怖，遠離顛倒夢想，究竟涅槃。

Since there is nothing to attain, a bodhisattva relies on Prajnaparamita, with no hindrance in the mind. Without any hindrance, there is no fear. Far beyond all inverted views, one attains nirvana.

三世諸佛，依般若波羅蜜多故，得阿耨多羅三藐三菩提。

All Buddhas of the past, present, and future also rely on Prajnaparamita and attain unsurpassed, complete enlightenment.

故知般若波羅蜜多，是大神咒，是大明咒，是無上咒，是無等等咒，能除一切苦，真實不虛。

Therefore, know that Prajnaparamita is the great transcendent mantra, the great bright mantra, the supreme mantra, the unequaled mantra that can remove all suffering. This is true and not false.

故說般若波羅蜜多咒，即說咒曰：揭諦揭諦，波羅揭諦，波羅僧揭諦，菩提薩婆訶。

Therefore, recite the Prajnaparamita mantra, recite the mantra that says: Gate Gate Paragate Parasamgate Bodhi Svaha.