I think I've told you quite a bit already about this Heart Sutra. And to say much more about it would be difficult. There's a certain amount of editing required. But simply it means that sutras are taught by the Buddha. So the Buddha is behind this. And the Avlokiteshvara Bodhisattva in this case is the Sambhogakaya body of the Buddha. Sambhogakaya body.

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The Sambhogakaya body is the bliss body. So the Dharmakaya Buddha is the source of this teaching. And it's being manifested through the Sambhogakaya body of Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva. And it means that you can be the bliss body. You can be Avalokiteshvara. And when you're in this body, this is what's meant by practicing deeply the prajnaparamita. And from this body you perceive that all five skandhas are empty. And this frees you from suffering and creates the possibility of others being free from suffering.

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But it isn't just that Avalokiteshvara was freed from suffering. First he saw suffering. And this is often one of the precipitating experiences of enlightenment or Anyway, of enlightenment. Or satori or khencho. Khencho means the first taste of it. And so often when a person is the first sort of dimension of the experience of satori, They feel a tremendous grief. And they can't separate themselves from the suffering of others.

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And the boundary that protects us and allows us to overlook the suffering. is drastically penetrated. And you can no longer feel yourself as separate from others. And you feel this deep grief. And you may, some people, when they have this experience, actually walk around like a Tassajara, walk around for a day or two just crying. Not following the schedule. And sometimes it doesn't happen so dramatically. But you just feel like you've been crying inside for days.

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Anyway, this is often a dimension of Satori experience. And so Avlokiteshvara Bodhisattva deep in the Sambhogakaya is the Sambhogakaya body and in that body knows the suffering of our existence. And at the same time, perceived these, saw that these factors of self feelings, perceptions, impulses, consciousness form, have no permanent or self nature, that the very impermanence that is suffering

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that impermanence fully realized is freedom from suffering. And this is true of feelings. The same is true of feelings, perceptions, and pulsations. In fact, all dharmas are marked with emptiness. They do not appear nor disappear. And you can't say they're tainted, you can't say they're pure. They don't increase nor decrease. Now there's a tremendous amount of Buddhism behind every line of this, refers to whole teachings. And there are various practices associated with the various lines. And various states of mind are reflected in this. But in such a way that if you keep repeating this and you know it in a cellular way You know it in such a way that you're walking down the street and it'll just pop out of your cells.

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No ignorance and also no extinction of it. Or is true, not false. These phrases appear like popular songs. And then you begin to realize this teaching. It's a slow message which takes a few years. At least a year or so of concentrating and practicing each line. And then in this sense the sutra itself is the Buddha. The sutra itself is Buddha nature. And if you really know this in a cellular way and it begins to appear in you it produces in you the history of a Buddha.

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That's a quick sketch. So therefore know the Prajnaparamita. The great transcendent mantra. The bright and utmost mantra. The supreme mantra. Able to relieve all suffering. And it's true, not false. She resists me occasionally. So proclaim, so teach, so present from yourself the Prajnaparamita mantra. Make clear this mantra that says, gone, gone gone beyond bodhisvaha and the svaha is the same as deep in prajnaparamita so you can collect your text later oh, some people left already and they didn't get it

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So ihr könnt das später mitnehmen. You don't need it for other... Well, I do, but people want it, and why shouldn't they have the Dharma? Okay. We'll just print some more. She printed these in very short notice somewhere in Heidelberg. Well, this was a sort of short course on Buddhism, on Zen Buddhism today. We chanted... We did Kin Hin. We did Zazen. I can't see any of you. No. Well, maybe I could.

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There's so much more I'd like to share with you and teach. But we all have our other bodies and lives to take care of. So we'll have to have some unfinished business. Which I leave up to you to finish. So let's sit just where we are for a little while. And remember your guardian angel is protecting you. At least Zazen is.

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