A bit of Buddhist inside-baseball, perhaps.
https://ceoln.wordpress.com/2025/03/31/the-heart-and-sandokai/

A bit of Buddhist inside-baseball, perhaps.
https://ceoln.wordpress.com/2025/03/31/the-heart-and-sandokai/
New Heart Sutra translation by Thich Nhat Hanh
https://plumvillage.org/about/thich-nhat-hanh/letters/thich-nhat-hanh-new-heart-sutra-translation
Wait... is the Pañcaviṃśatisāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra (25000 lines) putting
> "form is not one thing and emptiness another"
**before**
> "form is emptiness"
as opposed to the Heart Sutra, having "form is emptiness" first ?
I find that fascinating for some reason.
(Yes, I'm aware of Nattier's paper)
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The Prajnaparamita Sutras: Wisdom of Mahayana Buddhism
"The Prajnaparamita Sutras laid the foundation of Mahayana Buddhism. What are they, and how did they originate?"
https://www.learnreligions.com/the-prajnaparamita-sutras-450029
In the #heartsutra I feel one tends to overlook the full lists and their implications.
One look at "form is empty, emptiness is form" and we let it sink in.
But this: "and (other aggregates) are also like this" is overlooked.
If instead one looks further, it means (as an example):
"consciousness is empty"
"emptiness is consciousness"
"consciousness is not one thing and emptiness another"
This is much much harder to let sink in.
I'm still trying.
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Lately I’ve been talking a lot about home Buddhist practice, including home Buddhist services and such. These are things that devour lay-Buddhists often (myself included), but then I realized I never talked about making one’s own sutra book. There are a couple reasons why one might make their own. #buddhism #sutra #buddhistpractice #buddhistpath #LotusSutra #heartsutra #chanting #BuddhistChanting #BuddhistCanon #palicanon
http://nembutsu.cc/2024/01/29/make-your-own-buddhist-sutra-book/
Posted about #books and especially about Red Pine's little book on the Heart Sutra. Also that joke about dualism.
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#Japanese copy of the #HeartSutra. #Heian period, ca. 1175, Chuson-ji. Indigo paper, gold ink.
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"Wisdom and delusion basically aren't different. This shore and the other shore essentially have the same source. But because someone thinks the body and the mind exists, we say they are deluded and they dwell on this shore. And because someone doesn't think the body and the mind exist, we say they are wise and they dwell on the other shore." - Chen-k'o, Supplement to the Tripitaka, ca. 1595. #heartsutra #zen #buddhism