Teachings (New Orleans Zen Temple)

Maka Hannya Haramita Shingyo

The Great Sutra of Profound Essential Wisdom and Beyond The Bodhisattva of true compassion, Through deep practice in Great Wisdom, Understands that the body and the five skandas are only emptiness. And with this understanding, he helps all who suffer. Oh Sariputra, Phenomena is no different than ku, ku no different from phenomena. Phenomena becomes ku, ku becomes phenomena. The five skandas too are only phenomena. Oh Sariputra, All things are ku. There is no birth, no death, No purity, no impurity, No increase, no decrease. This is why in ku there is no form, no skandas, No eye, no ear, no nose, no tongue, no body, no mind. There is no color, no sound, no smell, no taste, no touch, no thought. There is no knowing, no ignorance, no illusion, no cessation of illusion. No withering, no death, no end to withering and death. There is no beginning to suffering, no end to suffering. There is no knowledge, no profit, no non-profit. Because of this wisdom which leads beyond, the Bodhisattva is fearless. All illusion and all attachment are dropped off, and he can grasp the final end to life, nirvana. All Buddhas of the past, of the present and of the future, Through this incomparable, unparalleled and authentic incantation, Can attain understanding of this supreme wisdom which frees us from suffering As it does away with all suffering, it allows us to find reality, true ku. Go, go, go together, beyond, fully beyond, to the shore of satori.

Maka Hannya Haramita Shingyo Kan ji zai bo za tsu Gyo jin han ya ha ra mi ta Ji sho ken go on kai ku Do i sai ku Yaku sha ri shi Shiki fu i ku Ku fu i shiki Shiki soku ze ku Ku soku ze shiki Ju so gyo shiki Yaku bu nyo ze Sha ri shi Ze sho ho ku so Fu sho fu metsu Fu ku fu jo Fu zo fu gen Ze ko ku chu Mu shiki mu ju so gyo shiki Mu gen ni bi ze shin i Mu shiki sho ko mi soku ho Mu gen kai nai shi mu i shiki kai Mu mu myo yaku mu mu myo jin Nai shi mu ro shi yaku mu ro shi jin Mu ku shu metsu do mu chi yaku mu toku i Mu sho toku ko bo dai sa ta e Han ya ha ra mi ta ko Shin mu ke ge mu ke ge ko Mu u ku fu on ri i sai ten do mu so ku gyo ne Han san ze sho butso e Han ya ha ra mi ta ko Toku a noku ta ra san myaku san bo dai Ko chi han ya ha ra mi ta Ze dai jin shu ze dai myo shu Ze mu jo shu ze mu to do shu No jo i sai ku shin jitsu fu ko Ko setsu han ya ha ra mi ta shu Soku setsu shu watsu Gya tei gya tei Ha ra gya tei Hara so gya tei Bo ji so wa ka Hannya Shingyo