Wen/Sheng Yan Master
The Heart Sutra, commonly known as the Prajna Heart Sutra, is the heart of Mahayana Buddhism and the center of Prajna thought in Mahayana Buddhism. It is also the center of the Prajna Sutra.
According to Master Yinshun’s “Heart Sutra Lecture Notes”: “In the six hundred-volume Prajna Sutra, there are almost identical sentences in the “Xue Guan Pin” which are not only what the Bodhisattva Guanzai said, but What the Buddha said directly to the relics." According to the "Prajna Heart Sutra Thought History" written by the first teacher of the old man in the early Dongchu period, in the second session of the "Great Prajna Sutra", the second part of "Guanzhaopin First Third", and other A section of "Xiyingpin No. 3" in the different translation of "Dapin Prajna Sutra" is quite similar to "Heart Sutra".
Seven Chinese translations of "Heart Sutra":
1, "Maha Prajna Paramita Daming Mantra Sutra" Yaoqin·Kumarashi translation
2, "Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra" Tang Xuan Zang translated
3. "Universal Wisdom" "Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra" Tang·Majiti Tripitaka Method Moon Translation
4, "Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra" Tang·Prajna Common Benefits and other translations
5, "Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra" Tang·Wisdom Wheel Translation
VI. Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra of the Holy Buddha: "Song·Shihu" translated
VII, "Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra" (Dunhuang Stone Chamber Edition) "Facheng translation
and more than seven translations, are now collected in "Taisho Xinxiu Tripitaka" eighth book. The popular reading is the second version of Xuanzang's translation, the most concise, with a total of 260 crosses. There are a lot of commentaries on the Heart Sutra, and there are fifty-nine types in the "Swastika". There are many modern monks and lay virtues, and almost everyone can speak the Heart Sutra. In the eighth volume of the Taisho Collection, there is also a transliteration of the Sanskrit Heart Sutra taught by Xuanzang Sanzang himself.
"The Heart Sutra" is a short section of the "Great Prajna Sutra". Although the translated part of the "Great Prajna Sutra" is very similar to the "Heart Sutra", it is not exactly the same. The mantra in the last paragraph of the "Heart Sutra" that we currently recite is not in the "Great Prajna Sutra". The "Heart Sutra" is the general outline of the three multiplication methods, which can be regarded as an introduction to Buddhism. There are three ways to teach practice in the
Buddhist scriptures:
1. Precepts
2. Modification
3. Cultivation of wisdom
Precepts and practice must be guided by Prajna wisdom. Without the guidance of wisdom, precepts are just like ordinary good people and good people, not necessarily those who study Buddhism; and the skill and strength of cultivation are no different from ordinary outside Taoism. Those who practice the way of Bodhisattva are not bodhisattvas without wisdom. The difference between ordinary people and bodhisattvas lies in the existence of wisdom.
The essence of Dharma lies in wisdom. Leaving wisdom to teach Dharma is just the knowledge and learning of the world. The Dharma that Shakyamuni said after he became a Buddha is produced by wisdom, and the purpose of the teaching is to hope that people who have heard the Dharma can gain wisdom through the practice methods he taught. Only after gaining wisdom can we get real relief and freedom. Therefore, Buddhism is generated from wisdom, and it can also help people generate wisdom and reach the state of enlightenment. Therefore, the Heart Sutra is a classic of wisdom.
Look at the Buddhist scriptures with an understanding attitude and method, and what you get is knowledge, not wisdom. Scholars and experts who study Buddhist scriptures can explain the Buddhist scriptures in great detail, but they themselves may not be able to get the wisdom of selflessness and formlessness from them. Only by looking at the Buddhist scriptures in an experiential manner, will the wisdom of intangible growth grow naturally.
Zen Buddhism in China and the Zen Buddhism that was later introduced to Japan and Korea paid special attention to wisdom, and therefore attached great importance to the Heart Sutra and Diamond Sutra. As the "Diamond Sutra" is relatively long and not easy to recite from time to time, the "Heart Sutra" is short, so in the jungles and practice sites of China, Japan, and Korea, it is recited on different occasions every day. The Heart Sutra is one of the practice guide classics for meditators. It is not only for understanding. Therefore, I participated in the meditation perspective to explain the Heart Sutra to the public at the Dongchu Zen Temple Meditation Meeting.
is excerpted from "The Classics of the Heart-Master Sheng Yan Lectures on the Heart Sutra"
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