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Great Wisdom Beyond Wisdom Heart Sutra
translated by San Francisco Zen Centre

Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva, when deeply practicing prajña paramita,
clearly saw that all five aggregates are empty and thus relieved all suffering.
Shariputra, form does not differ from emptiness; emptiness does not differ
from form. Form itself is emptiness; emptiness itself form. Sensations,
perceptions, formations, and consciousness are also like this. Shariputra, all
dharmas are marked by emptiness, they neither arise nor cease, are neither
defiled nor pure, neither increase nor decrease. Therefore, given emptiness,
there is no form, no feelings, no sensation, no perception, no formation, no consciousness;
no eyes, no ears, no nose, no tongue, no body, no mind; no
sight, no sound, no smell, no taste, no touch, no object of mind; no realm of
sight...no realm of mind-consciousness. There is neither ignorance nor
extinction of ignorance... neither old age and death, nor extinction of old age
and death; no suffering, no cause, no cessation, no path, no knowledge and
no attainment. With nothing to attain, a bodhisattva relies on prajña
paramita, and thus the mind is without hindrance. Without hindrance, there
is no fear. Far beyond all inverted views, one realizes nirvana. All buddhas
of past, present and future rely on prajña paramita and thereby attain
unsurpassed, complete, perfect enlightenment. Therefore, know the prajña
paramita as the great miraculous mantra, the great bright mantra, the
supreme mantra, the incomparable mantra, which removes all suffering and
is true, not false. Therefore we proclaim the prajña paramita mantra, the
mantra that says: "Gate Gate Paragate Parasamgate Bodhi Svaha."