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The Prajna Paramita Sutra
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The Prajna Paramita Sutra
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As translated by Shunryu Suzuki Roshi and chanted by Allen Ginsberg
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| MA KA HAN NYA HA RA MIT TA SHIN GYO Great Prajna Paramita Sutra KAN JI ZAI BO SATSU GYO JIN HAN NYA HA RA MIT TA JI SHO KEN GO Avalokitesvara bodhisattva practice deep prajna paramita when perceive five UN KAI KU DO ISSAI KU YAKU skandas all empty. relieve every suffering. SHA RI SHI SHIKI FU I KU KU FU I SHIKI SHIKI Sariputra, form not different (from) emptiness. Emptiness not different (from) form. Form SOKU ZE KU KU SOKU ZE SHIKE JU SO GYO SHIKI YAKU is the emptiness. Emptiness is the form. Sensation, thought, active substance, consciousness, also BU NYO ZE like this. SHA RI SHI ZE SHO HO KU SO FU SHO FU METSU FU KU FU JO Sariputra, this everything original character; not born, not annihilated not tainted, not pure, FU ZO FU GEN ZE KO KU CHU MU SHIKI MU JU SO GYO (does) not increase, (does) not decrease. Therefore in emptiness no form, no sensation, thought, active substance, SHIKI MU GEN NI BI ZETS SHIN NI MU SHIKI SHO KO MI SOKU HO MU GEN consciousness. No eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, mind; no color, sound, smell, taste, touch, object; no eye, KAI NAI SHI MU I SHIKI KAI MU MU MYO YAKU MU MU MYO world of eyes until we come to also no world of consciousness; no ignorance, also no ignorance JIN NAI SHI MU RO SHI YAKU MU RO SHI JIN MU KU SHU annihilation, until we come to no old age, death, also no old age, death, also no old age, death, annhilation of no suffering, cause of suffering, METSU DO MU CHI YAKU MU TOKU I MU SHO TOK KO BO DAI SAT TA E nirvana, path; no wisdom, also no attainment because of no attainment. Bodhisattva depends on HAN NYA HA RA MIT TA KO SHIN MU KE GE MU KE GE KO MU U KU FU ON RI prajna paramita because mind no obstacle. Because of no obstacle no exist fear; go beyond I SSAI TEN DO MU SO KU GYO NE HAN SAN ZE SHO BUTSU E HAN all (topsy-turvey views) attain Nirvana. Past, present and future every Buddha depend on prajna NYA HA RA MIT TA KO TOKU A NOKU TA RA SAN MYAKU SAN BO DAI paramita therefore attain supreme, perfect, enlightenment. KO CHI HAN NYA HA RA MIT TA ZE DAI JIN SHU ZE DAI MYO SHU Therefore I know Prajna paramita (is) the great holy mantram, the great untainted mantram, ZE MU JO SHU ZE MU TO DO SHU NO JO IS SAI KU SHIN JITSU FU KO the supreme mantram, the incomparable mantram. Is capable of assuaging all suffering. True not false. KO SETSU HAN NYA HA PA MIT TA SHU SOKU SETSU SHU WATSU Therefore he proclaimed Prajna paramita mantram and proclaimed mantram says GYA TE GYA TE HA RA GYA TE HA RA SO GYA TE BO DHI SO WA KA gone, gone, to the other shore gone, reach (go) enlightenment accomplish. HAN NYA SHIN GYO NEGA WA KU WA KO NO KU DO KU O MOTTE A MA NE KU ISSAI NI OYO What we pray, this merit with universally all existence Pervade, BO SHI WARE RA TO SHU JO TO MI NA TO MO NI BUTSUDO O JYO ZEN KO TO we and sentient being all with Buddhism achieve this (What I pray is that this merit pervade universally and we Buddhists and all sentient beings achieve Buddhism.) JI HO SAN SHI I SHI HU SHI SON BU SA MO KO SA Ten directions past, present and future all Buddhas The world honoured one. Bodhisattva, great Bodhisattva, MO KO HO JA HO RO MI great Prajna-paramita. |
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