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PRAJNA-PARAMITA'SUTRA

MY NAME IS GOD &

I AM TRULY SORRY
When the Rodhisattva Avalokit&svara practiced the deep
Prajna-pa~amita he clearly perceived that the Five Skan~
dhas all are empty,and thus passed beyond all suffering. Of those who were bom into joy &
o Sariputra, appearance is not different from empti- whose lives have turned into sorrow.
ness; emptiness is noll different from appearance. That
which is appearance,that is indeed emptiness; that which All men are brothers in every lana.
is emptiness, that is indeed appearance. Perception, con- .As kind & as cruel as we've become.
ception, imagination, and consciousness also are like this.
o Sariputra, all phenomena are characterized by empti- To grow as stupid as we do daily.
ness.They are not produced,neither are they annihilated;
they are not impure,neither are they pure; they do not Of those who rob the poor for a king
increase,neither do they decrease. Hence,within empti- or kill in the name of a country.
ness there is no appearance,no perception,no conception,
no imagination,no consciousness. & the sky is much bluer than her eyes &
Within emptiness there is no eye,no ear,nonose,no
'tongue,no body,no mind; there is no color,no sound,no those clouds whiter than yr lady.
smell,no taste,no touch,no object of thought; there is Of those who would shoot a living
no field of vision,no fieldof hearing,no field of smell,
no field of taste,no field of touch,no f~eld of coi- beast that never tried to harm them.
sciousness.
Within emptiness ther.e is no ignorance,likewise no It is we who must take the blame.
extinction of ignorance; no activity,likewise no extinc- It is we who must repent forever.
tion of activity; no consciousness and no extinction of
consciousness; no name-and-form,no extinction of namel.. Of those who have loved so deeply
and-form; no sense-organs,no extinction of sense-organs;
no contact, no extinction of contact; no sense-perception, & yet would take it from another.
no extinction of sense-perception; no desire,no extinc- It is no use that we do admit our
tion of desire; no attachment,no extinction of attach-
ment; no being,no extinction of being; no birth,no ex- shame or weep because we are not blessed.
tinction of hirth; no old age and death,no extinction of
old a ge- and d eat li • Of- those-who~ple-6vtr ilowers
Within emptiness there is no suffering,no accumula- & have no time to greet the morning.
tion of suffering,no annihilation of suffering,no path
to the annihilation of suffering. It is as if Christ was the last
Within emptiness there is no knowledge,likewise no
attainment,for·there is nothing to be attained. scapegoat & nobody can ever again
The mind of the hodhisattva who dwells in dependence wipe out all that guilt for us.
uJ;>on the Prajna-paramita is without hindrances; because
hiS mind is without hi~drances he is without fear. Going
beyond all error and all illusion,he reaches final Nir-
van a.
All the Buddhas of the past,present and future dwell
in dependence upon the Prajna-paramita; therefore they
attain the Highest Perfect Awakening. BY DAVE CUNLIFFE
Wherefore know that the 'Prajna-paramita is the Great
Mantram, the Mantram of Great Wisdom, the Supreme Man-
tram, the Peerless Mantram, capable of removing all pain.
It is true; i t · i s not false. Therefore
I proclaim thePrajna-paramita Mantram,pro-
claim the Mantram that says: .. Gate, gate,
paragate,parasamgate, hodhi, svahal" •
CHI
• .. Gone,gone,gone to the other shore! Wis-
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