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.
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July 26th, 1997, Serial No. 00318, Side A Nirvana, confusion, Heart Sutra, Intimacy, Right Effort, Attachment, Lotus Sutra,... |
Jul 26 1997 |
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July 26th, 1997, Serial No. 01066 Nirvana, confusion, Heart Sutra, Intimacy, Right Effort, Attachment, Lotus Sutra,... |
Jul 26 1997 |
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July 24th, 1997, Serial No. 00842 Four Noble Truths, Precepts, Don't Know Mind, Subject-and-Object, causation,... |
Jul 24 1997 |
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July 17th, 1997, Serial No. 00843 Heart Sutra, Separation, Oneness, Mahayana, Zazen Mind, Buddha Nature, Patience,... |
Jul 17 1997 |
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July 10th, 1997, Serial No. 00844 Heart Sutra, Mahayana, Separation, Karma, Four Noble Truths, Absolute-and-Relative,... |
Jul 10 1997 |
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June 28th, 1997, Serial No. 00316, Side A Practice Period, Conversation, Heart Sutra, Tassajara, Oneness, Silence, Addiction,... |
Jun 28 1997 |
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June 12th, 1997, Serial No. 00535 Offering, Precepts, Buddha Nature, Attachment, Six Realms, Interdependence, Gratitude... |
Jun 12 1997 |
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June 12th, 1997, Serial No. 01462, Side A Precepts, Attachment, Offering, Buddha Nature, Six Realms, Interdependence, Gratitude... |
Jun 12 1997 |
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1997.04.26-serial.00058 Four Noble Truths, Heart Sutra, Posture, Don't Know Mind, Bodhidharma, Daily... |
Apr 26 1997 |
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March 29th, 1997, Serial No. 01555 Religion, Birth-and-Death, New Year, Heart Sutra, Evil, War |
Mar 29 1997 |
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March 29th, 1997, Serial No. 01556 Religion, Birth-and-Death, Heart Sutra, Evil, War |
Mar 29 1997 |
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March 27th, 1997, Serial No. 00848 Heart Sutra, Dependent Origination, Monkey Mind, Renunciation, Liberation, Karma,... |
Mar 27 1997 |
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1997.03.15-serial.00101 Hindrances, Heart Sutra, Mahayana, Zazen, Letting Go, Vimalakirti, Suzuki Roshi,... |
Mar 15 1997 |
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February 15th, 1997, Serial No. 00357, Side A Happiness, Posture, Mindfulness, Four Foundations, Lay Practice, Dharma Transmission... |
Feb 15 1997 |
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Song of Jewel Mirror SamadhiSerial: SF-00072 5:00 class Buddha Ancestors, Four Noble Truths, Absolute-and-Relative, Emptiness, Samadhi,... |
Feb 04 1997 |
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January 11th, 1997, Serial No. 00780, Side A Four Noble Truths, Monastic Practice, training, Precepts, Bodhisattva Vow, Complete... |
Jan 11 1997 |
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August 24th, 1996, Serial No. 00794, Side A Heart Sutra, soto, Silent Illumination, Buddha Ancestors, Soto Zen, Building, Rinzai... |
Aug 24 1996 |
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August 22nd, 1996, Serial No. 00257 Lotus Sutra, Ego, Buddha Nature, Aspects of Practice, Heart Sutra, Bodhidharma,... |
Aug 22 1996 |
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August 8th, 1996, Serial No. 00255 Lotus Sutra, Buddha Nature, Heart Sutra, Mahayana, Sixth Patriarch, Samsara, Building... |
Aug 08 1996 |
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July 27th, 1996, Serial No. 00797, Side A Karma, Echo, Culture, Sangha, Gratitude, Big Mind, Heart Sutra, confusion, Building,... |
Jul 27 1996 |
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June 13th, 1996, Serial No. 00253 Heart Sutra, Attachment, Liberation, Don't Know Mind, Bodhidharma, Samadhi, Lay... |
Jun 13 1996 |
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March 28th, 1996, Serial No. 00248 Silence, Duality, Heart Sutra, Right Effort, Non-duality, Passions, Don't Know... |
Mar 28 1996 |
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March 24th, 1996, Serial No. 00809, Side A Mindfulness, Four Foundations, Right Effort, Instruction, Silent Illumination, Soto... |
Mar 24 1996 |
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March 7th, 1996, Serial No. 00245 Liberation, Vows, Silence, Dharma Transmission, Mahayana, Heart Sutra, Evil, New Year... |
Mar 07 1996 |
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March 2nd, 1996, Serial No. 00284, Side A Heart Sutra, Offering, Family Practice, Priest, resistance, Chanting, Daily Life,... |
Mar 02 1996 |
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February 29th, 1996, Serial No. 00244 Ordinary Mind, Mahayana, Monastic Practice, Gratitude, Liberation, Lay, Heart Sutra,... |
Feb 29 1996 |
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February 4th, 1996, Serial No. 00811, Side A Culture, Conversation, Lay, Heart Sutra, Lineage, Daily Life, Building, Chanting,... |
Feb 04 1996 |
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January 27th, 1996, Serial No. 00812, Side B Liberation, Silence, Mahayana, Enemies, Discrimination, confusion, Bodhisattva Vow,... |
Jan 27 1996 |
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January 27th, 1996, Serial No. 01065 Liberation, Manjushri, Silence, Mahayana, Discrimination, confusion, Bodhisattva Vow... |
Jan 27 1996 |
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Title UnknownSerial: BZ-00815B Rohatsu Day 6 Discrimination, Vows, Six Realms, Bodhisattva Vow, Heart Sutra, Non-discrimination,... |
Dec 08 1995 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Bowing, Sleepiness and RestlessnessSerial: SF-00152 Wednesday dharma talk. Chanting, Bowing, Heart Sutra, Posture, Ceremony, Zendo, Hindrances, Vows, Suzuki... |
Oct 04 1995 Green Gulch Farm |
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Our Relationship with Form - Speech & FoodSerial: SF-00151 Wednesday dharma talk. Practice Period, Conversation, Happiness, Ceremony, Silence, Bodhisattva Vow, Funeral... |
Sep 06 1995 Green Gulch Farm |
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Yurt LectureSerial: BZ-00747 Lecture Continuous, Bell, Big Mind, Diversity, Buddha Mind, Sangha, Anger, Heart Sutra,... |
Aug 21 1995 |
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Heart Sutra Pt.1Serial: BZ-00745A Lecture Heart Sutra, Birth-and-Death, Continuous, Four Noble Truths, Dependent Origination,... |
Jul 11 1995 |
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January 14th, 1995, Serial No. 00947, Side A Big Mind, Branching Streams, Practice Period, Light-and-Darkness, Oneness, Ordinary... |
Jan 14 1995 |
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Heart Sutra, Last SectionSerial: BZ-00949 Rohatsu Day 7 Heart Sutra, Hindrances, Heart Sutra, Daily Life, Nirvana, Buddha Nature, Ego,... |
Dec 10 1994 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Heart SutraSerial: BZ-00950A Rohatsu Day 6 Heart Sutra, Four Noble Truths, Nirvana, causation, Subject-and-Object, Karma, Lotus... |
Dec 09 1994 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Heart SutraSerial: BZ-00951A Rohatsu Day 5 Heart Sutra, Birth-and-Death, Big Mind, Duality, Soto Zen, Building, Happiness,... |
Dec 08 1994 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Heart Sutra: Setting the SceneSerial: BZ-00952B Skandas and Emptiness, Rohatsu Day 4 Heart Sutra, Skandas, Emptiness, Heart Sutra, Four Noble Truths, Non-duality, Samadhi... |
Dec 07 1994 Berkeley Zen Center |