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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
2008.01.19-serial.00112B Buddha Nature, Heart Sutra, Vows, true dharma, Daily Life, Culture, Subject-and-...		Jan 19 2008
2008.01.21-serial.00112F Practice Period, Hindrances, Interdependence, Soto Zen, Liberation, soto, Heart Sutra...		Jan 21 2008
2008.01.22-serial.00112G Duality, Non-duality, Samsara, Oneness, Non-discrimination, difficulty, Teacher-and-...		Jan 22 2008
2008.01.24-serial.00113C Posture, Oneness, Dharma Transmission, Bodhidharma, Big Mind, Echo, Heart Sutra,...		Jan 24 2008
2008.01.24-serial.00113D Dharma Transmission, Big Mind, Heart Sutra, Family Practice, Greed, Offering, Vows,...		Jan 24 2008
March 22nd, 2008, Serial No. 01121 Silent Illumination, Discrimination, Intuition, Duality, Teacher-and-Student, Non-...		Mar 22 2008
Embodying the Lotus Sutra Lotus Sutra, Buddha Nature, Manjushri, Heart Sutra, Book of Serenity	Tenshin Reb Anderson	Apr 24 2008 The Yoga Room
Prajna Paramita as Not Abiding Bodhisattva Vow, Non-attachment, Attachment, Heart Sutra, Desire	Tenshin Reb Anderson	Jul 26 2008 Morning No Abode Hermitage
The Brain and Enlightenment Enlightenment, Dependent Origination, Monkey Mind, Peace, Bodhisattva Vow, Subject-...	Doug Reiner	Aug 02 2008 Berkeley Zen Center
Dizang's Weakness: Case 20, Book of Serenity; Serial No. 01162 Serial: BZ-01162 Saturday talk Koan, Dizang, SER-20, Intimacy, Gratitude, Teacher-and-Student, Heart Sutra, Nirvana...	Karen Sundheim	Oct 04 2008 Berkeley Zen Center
2008.10.06-serial.00200 Breath, Posture, Heart Sutra, Buddha Ancestors, Meditation, Vinaya, confusion,...		Oct 06 2008
Beginners and Beginning: Self sufficiency: Serial No. 01084 Beginners, Composure, Light-and-Darkness, New Year, Bodhisattva Vow, Buddha Ancestors...	Hozan Alan Senauke	Jan 03 2009 Berkeley Zen Center
Ryokan's Poems - Butterfly Dreams Discrimination, Anger, Heart Sutra, Nirvana, Enemies, resistance, Transmission,...	Shohaku Okumura	Jan 24 2009
Buddha's Paranirvana: Serial No. 01091 Serial: BZ-01091 Sesshin Buddha's Birthday, Four Noble Truths, Happiness, Observe, Passions, Instruction...	Hozan Alan Senauke	Feb 14 2009 Berkeley Zen Center
Questions and Answers in Buddhism Religion, Right Speech, Lotus Sutra, Buddha Mind, Vows, Teacher-and-Student, Heart...	Laurie Senauke	Apr 18 2009
The Ultimate transcends Difference and Unity Samdhinirmochana Mahayana Sutra Chapter 3, part 1 Samdhinormonchana Sutra (Part VII), Chapter Three, Afternoon Dharma Talk Saturday June 14, 2009, P.M. No Abode Emptiness, Dharmakaya, Heart Sutra, confusion	Tenshin Reb Anderson	Jun 13 2009 Afternoon No Abode Hermitage
2009.06.16-serial.00228I Heart Sutra, Sutra, Buddha Nature, Bodhidharma, uchiyama	Edward Brown	Jun 16 2009
2009.08.03-serial.00225 Serial: EB-00225 Visiting aunt in Virginia; being at Tassajara in 1996; men and women practicing together; story of a sculptor friend having a lung transplant. Passions, Greed, Dharma Transmission, Heart Sutra, Desire	Edward Brown	Aug 03 2009
Meditation on Pride Tenshin Reb Anderson Samdhinirmonchana Sutra (Part X), Chapter Four, Morning Dharma Talk Saturday August 15, 2009, A.M. Doubt, Money, Building, Heart Sutra	Tenshin Reb Anderson	Aug 08 2009 Morning No Abode Hermitage
Hozan Alan Senauke The World Is What You Make It Two Truths, Practice Period, Aspects of Practice, Heart Sutra, Precious Mirror,...		Sep 19 2009
The Koan of a Bodhisattva Precepts, Vimalakirti, Perfect Wisdom, confusion, Bodhisattva Ceremony, Attachment,...	Mary Mocine	Oct 03 2009
Everything is Presenting Itself Serial: BZ-02070 Consciousness, Rohatsu Day 3 Intimacy, Culture, Dharma Transmission, Heart Sutra, Tassajara, Precepts, Gratitude,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 08 2009 Berkeley Zen Center
Beyond Dharma and Dharmas Serial: BZ-02071 Poem on Rohatsu, Rohatsu Day 4 Abhidharma, Five Skandhas, Big Mind, Discrimination, Karma, Concentration, Describe,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 09 2009 Berkeley Zen Center
Hyakujo and the Great Sublime Peak Serial: BZ-02110 Extraordinariness of the Ordinary, Sesshin Day 4 Intuition, Posture, Silent Illumination, Doubt, Culture, Instruction, Religion, Heart...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 26 2010 Berkeley Zen Center
Always Close to This Serial: TL-00213 ADZG Sunday Morning, Dharma Talk Intimacy, Dharmakaya, Nirmanakaya, Sambhogakaya, Heart Sutra	Taigen Dan Leighton	Jun 27 2010 ADZG Temple
We Must Eat Time Four Foundations, Dependent Origination, Mindfulness, Heart Sutra, Happiness, Nirvana...	Hozan Alan Senauke	Jul 03 2010
2010.08.10-serial.00131 Concentration, Heart Sutra, Fundraising, Funeral, Balance, Enemies, Dragons, Passions...		Aug 10 2010
Five Ranks Class Discrimination, Nirvana Sutra, Daily Life, Pure Existence, Nirvana, Intuition, Big...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Sep 30 2010 8
A Remembrance of Rebecca Mayeno Serial: BZ-02145 Rohatsu Day 3 Blue Cliff Record, Heart Sutra, Conversation, Priest, Lay, Forgiveness, Fox, Funeral...	Hozan Alan Senauke	Dec 07 2010
Intimate Zen, Perfect Wisdom Serial: BZ-02154 Other Perfect Wisdom, Heart Sutra, Dharma Transmission, Four Noble Truths, true dharma,...	Shosan Victoria Austin	Jan 29 2011 Berkeley Zen Center
Teshan and Lung Tan Transmission, Don't Know Mind, Anger, Ordinary Mind, Teacher-and-Student,...	Greg Denny	Mar 12 2011
Zazenshin Class Discrimination, Subject-and-Object, Teacher-and-Student, Doubt, Separation, Dragons,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 09 2011 5
Embracing Enlightenment I Karmic Consciousness, Heart Sutra, Abhidharma, Emptiness	Tenshin Reb Anderson	Jun 11 2011 Afternoon No Abode Hermitage
Embracing the Mahayana: Do You Want to be an Artist? Vasubandhu, Karmic Consciousness, Interview, Heart Sutra, Lotus Sutra	Tenshin Reb Anderson	Jul 16 2011 Morning No Abode Hermitage
Imagination as a Bodhisattva Resource Serial: TL-00240 ADZG Monday Night, Dharma Talk Lotus Sutra, Bodhisattva Way, Heart Sutra, Manjushri, Peace	Taigen Dan Leighton	Aug 22 2011 ADZG Temple
Zenki and Shoji Birth-and-Death, Nirvana, Liberation, Heart Sutra, Lay, Bowing, Silence, Observe,...	Hozan Alan Senauke	Sep 03 2011 1
Zenki and Shoji Birth-and-Death, Blue Cliff Record, Samsara, Nirvana, Impermanence, Liberation,...	Hozan Alan Senauke	Sep 03 2011 2
Zenki and Shoji Birth-and-Death, Bell, Heart Sutra, Daily Life, confusion, Buddha Mind, Nirvana,...	Hozan Alan Senauke	Sep 04 2011 4
Encountering Form in Daily Life Heart Sutra, Aspects of Practice, Offering, Intimacy, Observe, Bell, Mindfulness,...	Ross Blum	Oct 08 2011
Monastic Practice Serial: BZ-02216 The Law of Circularity, Saturday Lecture Wearing down Self-centeredness, Jizo's Compassion, Tiger's Cave Emptiness, Jizo, Compassion, Monastic Practice, Daily Life, Demons, Building,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Nov 26 2011 Berkeley Zen Center
The Essential Meaning of Buddha Dharma Serial: TL-00248 ADZG Sunday Morning, Dharma Talk Heart Sutra, Attachment, Shosan, Non-attachment, Dharma Transmission	Taigen Dan Leighton	Dec 04 2011 ADZG Temple
Baoche's Fanning Platform Sutra, Birth-and-Death, Soto Zen, soto, Heart Sutra, Passions, uchiyama,...	Hozan Alan Senauke	Mar 24 2012
Prajna Paramita Serial: TL-00256 ADZG Monday Night, Dharma Talk Attachment, Manjushri, Heart Sutra, Non-attachment	Taigen Dan Leighton	Apr 16 2012 ADZG Temple
Getting to Yes with Giving In Vows, Heart Sutra, Practice Period, Karma, Bodhisattva Ceremony, Precepts, Culture,...	Hozan Alan Senauke	Jun 02 2012
Non-separation and the One Bright Pearl Serial: TL-00264 ADZG Sunday Morning, Dharma Talk Heart Sutra, Separation, Big Mind, Building	Taigen Dan Leighton	Jun 10 2012 ADZG Temple
Genjo Koan - Section 9 Serial: BZ-02247 No Gaining Idea, Sesshin Day 2, All dharmas are without self Subject-and-Object, Duality, Non-duality, Precious Mirror, Impermanence, Heart Sutra...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 21 2012 Berkeley Zen Center
Please Call Me By My True Names Birth-and-Death, Observe, Humility, Impermanence, Silence, Heart Sutra, Separation,...	Peter Overton	Jul 28 2012
2012.07.29-serial.00138 Repentance, Commitment, Freedom, Vows, Heart Sutra, Precepts, resistance, Posture,...		Jul 29 2012
2012.07.29-serial.00139 Sangha, Precepts, Repentance, Vows, Samsara, Heart Sutra, Meditation, Posture,...		Jul 29 2012
2012.07.30-serial.00140 Subject-and-Object, training, Dharma Transmission, Birth-and-Death, Oneness,...		Jul 30 2012

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