What does the mantra in heart sutra mean ?

• Almond Cookies

  26 Apr 11, 17:07

  What does the mantra mean?

  What are the benefits of chanting the mantra.

• sinweiy

  26 Apr 11, 17:37

  http://www.visiblemantra.org/heart.html

  Conze's translation reads: "gone, gone, gone beyond, gone altogether beyond, oh what an awakening, All hail!"

   

  A tradition which seems to originate with Atiśa (982-1054) relates the parts of the mantra to the stages of the path as set out in the Abhisamayalamkara (attributed to Maitreya):

  gate :- Path of merit / accumulation

  gate :- Path of preparation

  paragate  :- Path of insight (1st Bodhisattva bhumi)

  parasamgate :- Path of meditation (2nd to 10th Bodhisattva bhumis)

  bodhi  :- Buddhahood

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  般若波罗蜜多心�
  
  �三�法师玄奘译

  　

  观自在�� 行深般若波罗蜜多时 照�五蕴皆空 度一切苦厄 �利� 色�异空 空�异色 色�是空 空�是色 �想行识 亦�如是 �利� 是诸法空相 �生�� �垢�净 �增�� 是故空中无色 无�想行识 无眼耳鼻舌身� 无色声香味触法 无眼界 乃至无�识界 无无明 亦无无明尽 乃至无�死 亦无�死尽 无苦集�� 无智亦无得 以无所得故 ���陲 �般若波罗蜜多故 心无挂� 无挂�故 无有�怖 远离颠倒梦想 究竟涅盘 三世诸佛 �般若波罗蜜多故 得阿耨多罗三�三�� 故知般若波罗蜜多 是大神咒 是大明咒 是无上咒 是无等等咒 能除一切苦 真实�虚 故说般若波罗蜜多咒 �说咒曰 �谛�谛 波罗�谛 波罗僧�谛 ��娑婆诃 般若波罗密多心�

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• Aik TC

  26 Apr 11, 23:18

   

  There are many translating of this mantra. This is one I found where the interpretation is different from that posted by sinweiy.  

   

  The Heart Sutra

  Commentary by Zen Master Seung Sahn

  Adapted from The Compass of Zen.

   

  Gate, gate, paragate, parasamgate, bodhi svaha!

  So there is yet one more step. If you attain emptiness, and then attain truth, how does this world’s truth function to help other beings? All buddhas attain anuttara samyak sambodhi, or unexcelled perfect enlightenment. This means that they attain truth. They can see that the sky is blue, and the tree is green. At the end of the sutra we are told that there is a great transcendent mantra, a great bright mantra, an utmost mantra, a supreme mantra: Gate, gate, paragate, parasamgate, bodhi svaha. It can be translated as “Gone, gone, gone to the other shore beyond.” So this mantra at the end of the Heart Sutra means only action. Up until this point, everything is just speech and words about attaining emptiness and truth. It is all a lot of very interesting descrip­tion. But this mantra means you must just do it. Some kind of action is necessary if you want to help this world. For the bodhisattva, there is only bodhisattva action. When you attain unexcelled perfect enlightenment, you must attain the function of this enlightenment in the world. That is what we call moment world. From moment to moment, perceive suffering in this world and only help all beings. That is a very important point.

   

  Attaining truth alone is not enough. If someone is thirsty, give them something to drink. If someone is hungry, give them food. When a suffering person appears before you, you only help, with no thinking or checking. The early part of this sutra has no “do-it,” just good speech about attainment and no-attainment. But if you attain something, you must do it. That is the meaning behind Gate, gate, paragate, parasamgate, bodhi svaha. Step by step, we attain how to function compassionately for others, to use truth for others, spontaneously, from mo­ment to moment. This is the whole point of the Heart Sutra. From moment to moment, when you are doing something, just do it.

   

• Amitayus48

  27 Apr 11, 08:56

  �说咒曰 �谛�谛 波罗�谛
  波罗僧�谛 ��娑婆诃
  

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• sinweiy

  29 Apr 11, 10:20

  more "modernise" talk:-

   

  色�是空，空�是色

  http://video.sina.com.cn/v/b/46706021-1838385111.html

  “三科法门”扶风《心ç»�》讲座选辑
  http://video.sina.com.cn/v/b/46808300-1838385111.html

  《��》中三�六对的用 (very good)
  http://video.sina.com.cn/v/b/42990408-1838385111.html

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