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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.

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Title	Speaker	Date
Sesshin Lecture Skandas, Heart Sutra, Letting Go, Emptiness, Interdependence, Buddha Ancestors,...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Apr 11 2000 Green Gulch
May 20th, 2000, Serial No. 00162, Side B Rinzai, Concentration, Heart Sutra, Tassajara, Buddha Nature, training, Priest,...		May 20 2000
Meal Serving, Chanting and Liturgy Details Serial: BZ-00057A One-Day Sitting Meal Serving, Chanting, Instruction, Chanting, training, Heart Sutra, Funeral, Bell,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jul 16 2000 Berkeley Zen Center
July 22nd, 2000, Serial No. 00057, Side B Complete Perfect Enlightenment, Religion, Four Noble Truths, Concentration, Culture,...		Jul 22 2000
July 27th, 2000, Serial No. 00851 Transmission, Dragons, Passions, Heart Sutra, Buddha Nature, Beginners, Conversation...		Jul 27 2000
August 12th, 2000, Serial No. 00081, Side A Instruction, Beginners, Commitment, Describe, War, Rinzai, Heart Sutra, Posture,...		Aug 12 2000
2000.08.16-serial.00160 Kinhin, Heart Sutra, Death, Chanting	Edward Brown	Aug 16 2000
September 9th, 2000, Serial No. 00919 Offering, Skandas, Attachment, Mahayana, Vows, Nirvana, Heart Sutra, Liberation,...		Sep 09 2000
Sunday Lecture Fox, causation, Karma, Nirvana, Soto Zen, Funeral, Heart Sutra, Emptiness, Ceremony,...	Zoketsu Norman Fischer	Sep 10 2000 Green Gulch
Surangama Sutra Class confusion, Four Noble Truths, Don't Know Mind, Delusion, Discrimination, Heart...	Zoketsu Norman Fischer	Sep 11 2000 Unknown
January 8th, 2001, Serial No. 00067 Priest, training, Four Noble Truths, Fundraising, Renunciation, Dharma Transmission,...		Jan 08 2001
2001.02.04-serial.00049 Precepts, Heart Sutra, Four Noble Truths, confusion, Dependent Origination, Subject-...		Feb 04 2001
March 1st, 2001, Serial No. 00131, Side B Attachment, Karma, Non-attachment, Karmic Consequences, Buddha Nature, Enemies,...		Mar 01 2001
2001.05.18-serial.00045 Attachment, lecture, Greed, Dragons, Posture, Teacher-and-Student, Dharma...		May 18 2001
Emptiness Serial: BZ-00102A Saturday Lecture Emptiness, Heart Sutra, Interdependence, Ego, Chanting, Duality, Composure,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	May 26 2001 Berkeley Zen Center
Treating Everything as a Subject from Eihei Shingi Serial: BZ-00104A Sesshin Day 1 Eihei Shingi, Tenzo, Bell, Subject-and-Object, Duality, First Principle, Non-duality...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 20 2001 Berkeley Zen Center
2001.07.25-serial.00073 Serial: SF-00073 Wednesday night. Anger, Mill Valley, Zendo, Suzuki Roshi, Tassajara, Bowing, Heart Sutra, Hate,...	Myogen Steve Stücky	Jul 25 2001
Yogacara 100 Dharmas: Serial: BZ-00089B Dharmas of Form, Sesshin Day 3 Yogachara, Discrimination, Skandas, Heart Sutra, Ego, Describe, Building, Intuition,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Sep 03 2001 Berkeley Zen Center
September 30th, 2001, Serial No. 00092, Side B Bodhisattva Vow, Aspects of Practice, Vows, Blue Cliff Record, Practice Period,...		Sep 30 2001
October 18th, 2001, Serial No. 00474, Side A Heart Sutra, Complete Perfect Enlightenment, Chanting, Hindrances, Aspects of...		Oct 18 2001
October 24th, 2001, Serial No. 00090 Mahayana, Heart Sutra, Bodhidharma, Silence, Tozan		Oct 24 2001
Sunday Lecture Suzuki Roshi, Ceremony, Impermanence, Enemies, Funeral, Heart Sutra, Faith, Bell,...	Lew Richmond	Oct 28 2001 Green Gulch
December 3rd, 2001, Serial No. 00097, Side B Right Speech, Renunciation, Four Noble Truths, Daily Life, Building, Impermanence,...		Dec 03 2001
January 19th, 2002, Serial No. 01112 Bodhisattva Vow, Vows, Emptiness, Cultivation, Nirvana, Heart Sutra, Zazen, Freedom,...	Jeffrey Schneider	Jan 19 2002 City Center
January 26th, 2002, Serial No. 04072 Heart Sutra, Posture, Avalokiteshvara, Suzuki Roshi, Zazen, training, Dragons,...	Lew Richmond	Jan 26 2002 City Center
Zen and Poetry Class Emptiness, Blue Cliff Record, Duality, Absolute-and-Relative, Impermanence, Aspects...	Daigan Lueck	Feb 19 2002 Green Gulch
2002.02.24-serial.00088 Soto Zen, Heart Sutra, zen, soto, lecture, Culture		Feb 24 2002
2002.03.11-serial.00074 true dharma, Heart Sutra, Vows, Beginners, Daily Life, Balance, Observe, Repentance,...		Mar 11 2002
2002.03.14-serial.00172 true dharma, Ordination, Compassion, Teacher-and-Student, Dependent Origination,...		Mar 14 2002
March 14th, 2002, Serial No. 00468 Four Noble Truths, Ego, Heart Sutra, Karmic Consequences, Nirvana, Karma, Attachment...		Mar 14 2002
March 28th, 2002, Serial No. 00443 Nirvana, Mahayana, Liberation, Heart Sutra, Four Noble Truths, Six Realms,...		Mar 28 2002
April 4th, 2002, Serial No. 00444 Right Speech, Right Effort, Happiness, Concentration, Four Noble Truths, Mindfulness...		Apr 04 2002
Sounding Mokugyo Bell Serial: BZ-00144A Bring Out the Voice of the Bell, One-Day Sitting Bell, Chanting, Zazen, Bell, Culture, Heart Sutra, Chanting, Tassajara, Mindfulness...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Apr 07 2002 Berkeley Zen Center
April 18th, 2002, Serial No. 00446 Precepts, Right Speech, Obstacles, Liberation, Heart Sutra, Observe, Passions, Bell,...		Apr 18 2002
May 4th, 2002, Serial No. 00146, Side B Four Noble Truths, Mahayana, Nirvana, Heart Sutra, Funeral, Samsara, Bodhisattva Vow...		May 04 2002
One-day Sitting Lecture Serial: SF-01018 Lotus Sutra (Heart Sutra), seals our mind with Buddha's mind, basics of the middle way are covered (in the Sutra of Innumerable Meanings), power of joy and compassion, devotion... Lotus Sutra, First Principle, Complete Perfect Enlightenment, Nirvana, Four Noble...	Fu Schroeder	May 11 2002 Green Gulch
Wednesday Lecture Serial: SF-01019 Work week: work practice, SFZC Mission Statement, two forms of Buddha's teaching: texts, etc, and common sense. Up to us to find satisfying relationship to Buddhist teaching, "... Complete Perfect Enlightenment, Dependent Origination, realization, Perfect Wisdom,...	Fu Schroeder	Jun 05 2002 Green Gulch
2002.08.14-serial.00015 Big Mind, Monkey Mind, Kinhin, Emptiness, Heart Sutra	Edward Brown	Aug 14 2002
Trip to Japan Serial: BZ-00210B Saturday Lecture Japan, Bell, resistance, soto, American, Heart Sutra, Chanting, Practice Period,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Sep 28 2002 Berkeley Zen Center
October 23rd, 2002, Serial No. 00974 Zendo, Suzuki Roshi, Freedom, Mill Valley, Heart Sutra, Birth-and-Death, Letting Go,...	Marc Lesser	Oct 23 2002 City Center
November 9th, 2002, Serial No. 00171, Side A Big Mind, Interdependence, Subject-and-Object, Anger, Karma, Lay, Heart Sutra,...		Nov 09 2002
November 16th, 2002, Serial No. 00977 Ordinary Mind, Practice Period, Mindfulness, Letting Go, Suzuki Roshi, Freedom,...	Marc Lesser	Nov 16 2002 City Center
Passions Passions, Priest, Evil, Enemies, Heart Sutra, Hate, Birth-and-Death, Nirvana,...	Kosho McCall	Dec 01 2002 Tassajara
Everyday Life Is Like a Movie Serial: BZ-00173B The Movie and the Empty Screen, Rohatsu Day 2 Practice, Daily Life, Anger, Instruction, Posture, Emotions, Big Mind, Heart Sutra,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 03 2002 Berkeley Zen Center
ial No. 00290 Heart Sutra, Mahayana, Hindrances, Daily Life, Separation, Instruction, Buddha Nature...		2003
January 11th, 2003, Serial No. 04074 Dharma Transmission, Transmission, Suzuki Roshi, Priest, Bodhisattva Vow, Soto Zen,...	Lew Richmond	Jan 11 2003 City Center
February 27th, 2003, Serial No. 00465 Four Noble Truths, Greed, Hate, Sangha, Six Realms, Religion, Doubt, Absolute-and-...		Feb 27 2003
March 1st, 2003, Serial No. 00442 Humility, Samadhi, Family Practice, Ego, Intimacy, Monastic Practice, Anger,...		Mar 01 2003
April 10th, 2003, Serial No. 00298 Mahayana, Transmission, Silence, Buddha Mind, Culture, Heart Sutra, Lineage, Posture...		Apr 10 2003
May 12th, 2003, Serial No. 00135, Side B Heart Sutra, Religion, Politics, Tassajara, Practice Period, Conversation, training,...		May 12 2003

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