The Exalted One,

　　the Lady of Conquest,

　　the Sutra on the Heart of the Perfection of Wisdom

　　[Tibetan translator”s note:

　　The name of this sutra in Sanskrit is Arya Bhagavati Prajnya Paramita Hirdaya. In Tibetan this

　　is Pakpa Chomden Dema Sherabkyi Parultu Chinpay Nyingpo. (In English this is The Lady

　　of Conquest, the Exalted Sutra on the Heart of the Perfection of Wisdom.)

　　This work is completed in a single sheaf. I bow first to all the enlightened beings, and to every warrior

　　saint.]

　　Once I heard this teaching.

　　The Conqueror was staying on Vulture”s Peak, in the Keep of the King. With

　　him was a great gathering of monks, and a great gathering of warrior saints.

　　The Heart of the Perfection of Wisdom

　　At a certain moment the Conqueror went into deep meditation on the part of

　　the teaching known as the "awareness of the profound." At that moment too

　　did the realized being, the great warrior, the lord of power, Loving Eyes, see

　　into this one deep practice, the practice of the perfection of wisdom. And he

　　saw perfectly that the five heaps—the five parts of a person—were empty of

　　any nature of their own.

　　And then, by the power of the Enlightened One, the junior monk named Shari

　　Putra turned and asked this question of the great warrior, Loving Eyes, the

　　realized one, the lord of power:

　　"If any son or daughter of noble family hoped to follow the deep practice of

　　the perfection of wisdom, what would they have to do

　　"

　　This then is the answer that the lord of power, the realized one, the great

　　warrior Loving Eyes gave to the junior monk named Shari Putra:

　　"Here, Shari Putra, is what any son or daughter of noble family should see

　　who hopes to follow the deep practice of the perfection of wisdom.

　　The Heart of the Perfection of Wisdom

　　"See first all five heaps—all five parts to a person—as being empty of any

　　essence of their own. Your body is empty; emptiness is your body. Emptiness

　　is nothing but your body, and your body is nothing but emptiness.

　　"The same is true of your feelings, and your ability to discriminate between

　　things, and the other factors that make you up, and all the different kinds of

　　awareness that you possess: all of them are empty.

　　"And thus we can say, Shari Putra, that every existing thing is emptiness.

　　Nothing has any characteristic of its own. Nothing ever begins. Nothing ever

　　ends. Nothing is ever impure. Nothing ever becomes pure. Nothing ever gets

　　less, and nothing ever becomes more.

　　"And thus can we say, Shari Putra, that with emptiness there is no body.

　　There are no feelings. There is no ability to discriminate. There are none of

　　the other factors that make you up, and there is no awareness.

　　The Heart of the Perfection of Wisdom

　　"There are no eyes; no ears; no nose; no tongue; no body; no mind; nothing to

　　see; nothing to hear; nothing to smell; nothing to taste; nothing to touch; and

　　nothing to think of.

　　"There is no part of you that sees. There is no part of you that is aware of

　　what you see; and this is true all the way up to the part of you that thinks, and

　　the part of you that is aware that you are thinking.

　　"There is no misunderstanding your world. There is no stopping this

　　misunderstanding, and the same is true all the way up to your old age and

　　your death, and to stopping your old age and your death.

　　"There is no suffering. There is no source of this suffering. There is no

　　stopping this suffering. There is no path to stop this suffering.

　　"There is no knowledge. There is nothing to reach. And there is nothing not

　　to reach.

　　The Heart of the Perfection of Wisdom

　　"Thus it is, Shari Putra, that warrior saints have nothing to reach; and because

　　of this, they are able to practice the perfection of wisdom, and stay in this

　　perfection of wisdom. This frees them of every obstacle in their minds, and

　　this …

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