Gya tei gya tei ha ra gya tei ha ra sou gya tei bo ji so wa kaД¬aptain Dangus 7y Salzano Have you read Thich Nhat Han's recent translation of the Heart Sutra? It is fantastic and avoids the trappings of more traditional translations which give the impression that 'emptiness' (shunyata, ku) is a nihilistic denial of reality.

Ko setsu han nya ha ra mi ta shu soku sesshu watsu Ze dai jin shu ze dai myou shu ze mu jou shu ze mu tou dou shu San ze sho butsu e han nya ha ra mi ta ko Mu u ku fu on ri issai ten dou mu sou kuu gyou ne han Mu mu myou yaku mu mu myou jin nai shi mu rou shi yaku mu rou shi jin Mu gen ni bi zesshin ni mu shiki shou kou mi soku hou Ze ko kuu juu mu shiki mu ju sou gyou shiki Kan ji zai bo satsu gyou jin han nya ha ra mi ta jiДЇu shou fu metsu fu ku fu jou fu zou fu gen May you be liberated through right practice and understanding.Д«ussetsu ma ka han nya ha ra mi ta shin gyou There is more to buddhism than what you guys have expressed there, keep practicing and striving so you may discover the real truth.

Meditation teaches you to not attach, and to purify mind and body to see the real nature of the mind so you may experience a joy beyond joy, happiness beyond happiness. The thing with buddhism is, its not only ' this is nothing and all there is' May all beings realize buddhahood and be realeased from suffering. Being the king of a floating rock in space. So many thing yet we think this life as we experience it through our ego and fabricated mind, our society is so important. We depend on the sun to live, the moon and the way it draws water to shores, oxygen, this galaxy and other galaxies. Seeing the true nature of the mind and understanding that everything is impermanent makes us realize impermanence is all about something has took this form (This Earth, your body, trees, water, air, fire, the sun, marbles, rock, human form, animal form etc.) and one day will also disappear into thin air. I am depressed, I got mistreated, I got this or that, this is MY life,family,friends,enemy etc. Its teachings in its core is that in the universal sense, all these emotions are just an expression of the universal energy that all exist in us, but we cling and attach to them, make it so important, even make it our lives because we are ignorant of our true nature and cling to impermanent thing and identiy with it as the 'i' It is all dependant on each other, on so many things.Д«uddhism doesnt mean happiness,joy,anger,sadness are not existing, in fact they do acknowledge it why do you think Buddha sat under the Bodhi tree for years to realize a way out of human suffering? such has the clinging to past happiness or aversion from trauma. Meaning your existence, 'you' that is made of body,memory, past karma ( psychological, energical, cosmic, karmic) etc. The Word emptiness is translated from sanskrit, which a lot of meaning is lost in translation, such as meditation = contemplate in english but the practice of meditation has no better word to be translated to.Д®mptiness means absence of a source of independance. I have studied zen with a real Zen master, ill try to explain to the best of my ability what the heart sutra and emptiness imply. There are many wrong views and understanding of buddhism on this thread,

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