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.

From Heart Sutra on Wikipedia

Showing 561 talks
 

- Reset Search

Title Speaker

Compassion

Four Noble Truths, Liberation, Discrimination, training, Heart Sutra, Ego, Beginners...
Jun 29 2013

Joshu's Wash Your Bowl

Subject-and-Object, Bell, Separation, Heart Sutra, Practice Period, Buddha Nature,...
Jun 01 2013
2

Joshu's Wash Your Bowl

Book of Serenity, Sixth Patriarch, Subject-and-Object, Practice Period, Dragons,...
May 18 2013
1

Samdhinirmocana Sutra

Posture, Oneness, Duality, Subject-and-Object, Mahayana, Non-violence, Heart Sutra,...
Apr 14 2013

I Have Long Heard of Dragon Pond 

I Have Long Heard of Dragon Pond
Tenshin Reb Anderson
No Abode
April 13, 2013 AM

Perfect Wisdom, Dragons, Transmission, Chanting, Heart Sutra
Apr 13 2013
Morning
No Abode Hermitage

The Perfection of Wisdom 

Perfect Wisdom, zen meditation, Transmission, Faith, Heart Sutra
Mar 07 2013
The Yoga Room

The Buddha Mind Seal and the Teachings of Perfect Wisdom 

The Buddha Mind Seal and the Teachings of Perfect Wisdom
Tenshin Reb Anderson

March 2, 2013 AM
No Abode

Perfect Wisdom, Heart Sutra, Buddha Mind, Hindrances, Greed
Mar 02 2013
Morning
No Abode Hermitage

Yes and No

Light-and-Darkness, Precepts, Mindfulness, Don't Know Mind, Bodhisattva Ceremony...
Feb 23 2013

Bumblebees Can't Fly

training, Practice Position, Duality, Separation, Attachment, Heart Sutra,...
Feb 09 2013

Mindfulness and Mindlessness

Mindfulness, Hindrances, Patience, Four Foundations, Posture, Hate, Aspects of...
Jan 19 2013

Sandokai Lecture Four

Serial: BZ-02281

Couplet 5, Rohatsu Day 4

Bell, Practice Position, Discrimination, Practice Period, Chanting, Subject-and-...
Dec 05 2012
Berkeley Zen Center

2012.07.30-serial.00140

Subject-and-Object, training, Dharma Transmission, Birth-and-Death, Oneness,...
Jul 30 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

Please Call Me By My True Names

Birth-and-Death, Observe, Humility, Impermanence, Silence, Heart Sutra, Separation,...
Jul 28 2012

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...
Jun 21 2012
Berkeley Zen Center

Getting to Yes with Giving In

Vows, Heart Sutra, Practice Period, Karma, Bodhisattva Ceremony, Precepts, Culture,...
Jun 02 2012

Baoche's Fanning

Platform Sutra, Birth-and-Death, Soto Zen, soto, Heart Sutra, Passions, uchiyama,...
Mar 24 2012

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,...
Nov 26 2011
Berkeley Zen Center

Encountering Form in Daily Life

Heart Sutra, Aspects of Practice, Offering, Intimacy, Observe, Bell, Mindfulness,...
Oct 08 2011

Zenki and Shoji

Birth-and-Death, Bell, Heart Sutra, Daily Life, confusion, Buddha Mind, Nirvana,...
Sep 04 2011
4

Zenki and Shoji

Birth-and-Death, Nirvana, Liberation, Heart Sutra, Lay, Bowing, Silence, Observe,...
Sep 03 2011
1

Zenki and Shoji

Birth-and-Death, Blue Cliff Record, Samsara, Nirvana, Impermanence, Liberation,...
Sep 03 2011
2

Embracing the Mahayana: Do You Want to be an Artist? 

Vasubandhu, Karmic Consciousness, Interview, Heart Sutra, Lotus Sutra
Jul 16 2011
Morning
No Abode Hermitage

Embracing Enlightenment I 

Karmic Consciousness, Heart Sutra, Abhidharma, Emptiness
Jun 11 2011
Afternoon
No Abode Hermitage

Zazenshin Class

Discrimination, Subject-and-Object, Teacher-and-Student, Doubt, Separation, Dragons,...
Jun 09 2011
5

Teshan and Lung Tan

Transmission, Don't Know Mind, Anger, Ordinary Mind, Teacher-and-Student,...
Mar 12 2011

Intimate Zen, Perfect Wisdom

Serial: BZ-02154

Other

Perfect Wisdom, Heart Sutra, Dharma Transmission, Four Noble Truths, true dharma,...
Jan 29 2011
Berkeley Zen Center

A Remembrance of Rebecca Mayeno

Serial: BZ-02145

Rohatsu Day 3

 

Blue Cliff Record, Heart Sutra, Conversation, Priest, Lay, Forgiveness, Fox, Funeral...
Dec 07 2010

Five Ranks Class

Discrimination, Nirvana Sutra, Daily Life, Pure Existence, Nirvana, Intuition, Big...
Sep 30 2010
8

2010.08.10-serial.00131

Concentration, Heart Sutra, Fundraising, Funeral, Balance, Enemies, Dragons, Passions...
Aug 10 2010

We Must Eat Time

Four Foundations, Dependent Origination, Mindfulness, Heart Sutra, Happiness, Nirvana...
Jul 03 2010

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...
Jun 26 2010
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,...
Dec 09 2009
Berkeley Zen Center

Everything is Presenting Itself

Serial: BZ-02070

Consciousness, Rohatsu Day 3

Intimacy, Culture, Dharma Transmission, Heart Sutra, Tassajara, Precepts, Gratitude,...
Dec 08 2009
Berkeley Zen Center

The Koan of a Bodhisattva

Precepts, Vimalakirti, Perfect Wisdom, confusion, Bodhisattva Ceremony, Attachment,...
Oct 03 2009

Hozan Alan Senauke The World Is What You Make It

Two Truths, Practice Period, Aspects of Practice, Heart Sutra, Precious Mirror,...
Sep 19 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
Aug 08 2009
Morning
No Abode Hermitage

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
Aug 03 2009

2009.06.16-serial.00228I

Heart Sutra, Sutra, Buddha Nature, Bodhidharma, uchiyama
Jun 16 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
Jun 13 2009
Afternoon
No Abode Hermitage

Questions and Answers in Buddhism

Religion, Right Speech, Lotus Sutra, Buddha Mind, Vows, Teacher-and-Student, Heart...
Apr 18 2009

Buddha's Paranirvana: Serial No. 01091

Serial: BZ-01091

Sesshin

Buddha's Birthday, Four Noble Truths, Happiness, Observe, Passions, Instruction...
Feb 14 2009
Berkeley Zen Center

Ryokan's Poems - Butterfly Dreams

Discrimination, Anger, Heart Sutra, Nirvana, Enemies, resistance, Transmission,...
Jan 24 2009

Beginners and Beginning: Self sufficiency: Serial No. 01084

Beginners, Composure, Light-and-Darkness, New Year, Bodhisattva Vow, Buddha Ancestors...
Jan 03 2009
Berkeley Zen Center

Pages