Heart Sutra Talks
The Heart Sūtra (Sanskrit: प्रज्ञापारमिताहृदय Prajñāpāramitāhṛdaya or Chinese: 心經 Xīnjīng, Tibetan: བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་མ་ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པའི་སྙིང་པོ) is a popular sutra in Mahāyāna Buddhism. In Sanskrit, the title Prajñāpāramitāhṛdaya translates as "The Heart of the Perfection of Wisdom".
The Sutra famously states, "Form is emptiness (śūnyatā), emptiness is form." It is a condensed exposition on the Buddhist Mahayana teaching of the Two Truths doctrine, which says that ultimately all phenomena are Śūnyatā (emptiness).
It has been called "the most frequently used and recited text in the entire Mahayana Buddhist tradition." The text has been translated into English dozens of times from Chinese, Sanskrit, and Tibetan, as well as other source languages.
Title | Speaker | |
---|---|---|
Six Paramitas Patience, Heart Sutra, Paramitas, Precepts |
Jun 18 2021 |
|
Beginner's Sesshin Continuous, Mindfulness, Bowing, Heart Sutra, Kinhin |
Jun 06 2021 |
|
The Five Skandhas Consciousness, Heart Sutra, Zazen Mind, Avalokiteshvara, Money |
Jun 05 2021 |
|
Boundlessness Heart Sutra, Peace, Chanting, Lotus Sutra, Jukai |
May 01 2021 |
|
Practicing With Emptiness Heart Sutra, Avalokiteshvara, Berkeley Zen Center, Tassajara, Silence |
Feb 27 2021 |
|
Remembering Sojun, Part 1 Berkeley Zen Center, Dokusan, Tassajara, Dragons, Heart Sutra |
Jan 15 2021 |
|
Sangha Meeting Heart Sutra, Gratitude, Funeral, Echo, Chanting |
Jan 09 2021 |
|
Birth and Death, Part 2 Birth-and-Death, Building, Heart Sutra, Mindfulness, Ego, Zoom, Funeral, Interview,... |
Dec 20 2020 |
|
Total Dynamic Working Birth-and-Death, Impermanence, Vows, Equanimity, Heart Sutra, confusion, Instruction... |
Dec 05 2020 |
|
Senior Student Tributes Berkeley Zen Center, Heart Sutra, Constancy, Gratitude, Don't Know Mind,... |
Nov 01 2020 |
|
Public Dokusan 11 Subject-and-Object, Intuition, Heart Sutra, Conversation, Posture, Karma, Birth-and-... |
Oct 30 2020 |
|
The Whole Earth Is Medicine Manjushri, Blue Cliff Record, Heart Sutra, Hindrances, Perfect Wisdom, Describe,... |
Oct 17 2020 |
|
Dongshan Class 1 First Principle, Transmission, Subject-and-Object, Oneness, Heart Sutra, Continuous,... |
Aug 25 2020 |
|
Thinking and Non-Thinking Right Speech, training, Four Noble Truths, Interview, Instruction, American,... |
Aug 22 2020 |
|
Heart Sutra Heart Sutra, Chanting, Berkeley Zen Center, Emotions, Priest, Hindrances, Evil,... |
Jul 25 2020 |
|
July 21st, 2020, Serial No. 02759 Karma, Don't Know Mind, Fox, Culture, Bodhisattva Vow, Ego, Big Mind, Heart... |
Jul 21 2020 |
|
Closely Watched Mind 1 Don't Know Mind, Karma, resistance, Karmic Consequences, Bodhisattva Vow,... |
Jun 29 2020 |
|
Making Refuge Heart Sutra, Avalokiteshvara, confusion, Conversation, Practice Period, Subject-and-... |
May 16 2020 |
|
Buddha's Enlightenment Concentration, Dependent Origination, Heart Sutra, Birth-and-Death, training,... |
Dec 05 2019 |
|
The Non-Duality of Silence and Language Silence, Transmission, Perfect Wisdom, Non-duality, Balance, Duality, Observe, Heart... |
Nov 23 2019 AM No Abode Hermitage |
|
Choices and Preferences Passions, Eka, Heart Sutra, uchiyama, Attachment, Bodhidharma, confusion, Describe,... |
Sep 21 2019 |
|
Going Beyond Heart Sutra, Intimacy, Impermanence, Birth-and-Death, Practice Period, Renewal,... |
Aug 24 2019 |
|
Zenki Class 3Serial: BZ-02680 PP Class 3
Birth-and-Death, Blue Cliff Record, Liberation, Buddha Mind, Samsara, Religion, Heart... |
May 30 2019 |
|
A Conversation about Principle and Phenomena Heart Sutra, Perfect Wisdom, resistance, confusion, Letting Go, Don't Know Mind... |
May 18 2019 AM No Abode Hermitage |
|
Practicing with Prayer Chanting, Peace, Heart Sutra, Continuous, Instruction, Echo, Separation, Conversation... |
Apr 27 2019 |
|
Just This Is: the Avatamsaka Sutra in the Zen Tradition Perfect Wisdom, Discrimination, Buddha Mind, Practice Period, Karmic Consciousness,... |
Apr 13 2019 AM No Abode Hermitage |
|
Let the Mystery Be training, Heart Sutra, Skandas, Daily Life, Practice Period, Silence, Posture,... |
Mar 09 2019 |
|
Taking Refuge Impermanence, Heart Sutra, Conversation, Four Foundations, resistance, Mindfulness,... |
Feb 09 2019 |
|
Innermost Request Heart Sutra, Instruction, Nirvana, Intimacy, Mahayana, Posture, training |
Feb 02 2019 |
|
Negative Capability Sesshin training, Bodhisattva Vow, Doubt, Aspects of Practice, Heart Sutra, Vows, American,... |
Jan 12 2019 |
|
Being Time Buddha Nature, Sixth Patriarch, Doubt, Equanimity, Transmission, Dharma Transmission... |
Nov 10 2018 |
|
The Hands And Eyes Of AvalokiteshvaraCompassion is the teaching of the Buddha. Stories of the different statues and scrolls at No Abode. Yunmen and Daowu, the thousand arms of Avalokiteshvara. Compassion, Avalokiteshvara, Transmission, Silence, Avalokiteshvara, Perfect Wisdom,... |
Nov 10 2018 AM No Abode Hermitage |
|
Maylie Scott Bears the Unbearable Sesshin: Close Aspects of Practice Berkeley Zen Center, Peace, Conversation, Transmission, Offering, Dharma Transmission... |
Nov 03 2018 |
|
Tea Ladies and Their Mind-Refreshing TeachingSerial: BZ-02639 Sesshin Open Aspects of Practice
Sixth Patriarch, Heart Sutra, Soto Zen, Priest, Aspects of Practice, soto, Practice... |
Oct 06 2018 |
|
Beating the Drum Buddha Ancestors, Practice Period, Confession-and-Repentance, Vows, true dharma,... |
Aug 11 2018 |
|
Daikan Eno and The Hundred DharmasSerial: BZ-02618 Sesshin Day 2
Repentance, Doubt, Big Mind, Anger, Karma, Greed, Ego, Heart Sutra, Sixth Patriarch,... |
Jun 14 2018 |
|
The Six Qualitative Factors That Keep Us Balanced and CenteredSerial: BZ-02617 Sesshin Day 1
Daily Life, Posture, Composure, Building, Heart Sutra, Hindrances, Mahayana, Karma,... |
Jun 13 2018 |
|
The Womb of the Tathagata #3: Our Buddha Nature PreceptsOrigins of the Bodhisattva precepts; development and commentaries; the reasons for Buddhas appearing in this world. Precepts, Buddha Nature, Transmission, Heart Sutra, |
Jun 09 2018 AM No Abode Hermitage |
|
Nirvana Study Sesshin Day 2 Lecture 3 Composure, Bell, Obstacles, Nirvana, Daily Life, Ego, Heart Sutra, Two Truths,... |
Feb 18 2018 |