Heart Sutra part 1

Heart Sutra part 1

Translation: When Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva was practicing deeply the profound Prajna Paramita (the Perfection of Wisdom),


Shō ken go un kai kū (Note: often chanted as "shō ken", though sometimes initiated with "ji")
Translation: he clearly saw that all five skandhas (the aggregates of form, sensation, perception, mental formations, and consciousness) are empty,

Do is sai ku yaku
Translation: and thus overcame all suffering and distress.


Sha ri shi
Translation: "O Sariputra,"

Translation:
Form is not different from emptiness, emptiness is not different from form.
Form itself is emptiness, emptiness itself is form.
Sensations, perceptions, mental formations, and consciousness are also like this.

O Sariputra, the characteristics of the emptiness of all phenomena are:
Non-arising and non-ceasing,
Neither impure nor pure,
Neither increasing nor decreasing.