Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva, moving in the deep course of the Wisdom that has gone beyond, looked down from on high, beheld but five skandhas, and saw that in their own-being they were empty. ✦ Here, O Sariputra, form is emptiness and the very emptiness is form; emptiness does not differ from form, form does not differ from emptiness; whatever is form, that is emptiness, whatever is emptiness, that is form. ✦ The same is true of feelings, perceptions, impulses, and consciousness. All dharmas are marked with emptiness; neither produced nor stopped, neither defiled nor immaculate, neither deficient nor complete. ✦ Therefore in emptiness there is no form, no feeling, no perception, no impulse, no consciousness; no eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, or mind; no forms, sounds, smells, tastes, touchables, or objects of mind. ✦ There is no ignorance, no extinction of ignorance; no decay and death, no extinction of decay and death. There is no suffering, no origination, no stopping, no path; no cognition, no attainment and no non-attainment. ✦ The Bodhisattva, relying on the Perfection of Wisdom, dwells without thought-coverings, free from fear, beyond delusion, and attains complete Nirvana. — Gate gate pāragate pārasaṃgate bodhi svāhā.

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