--- Jacqueline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Yellow is my favourite colour ... form is form.
> The coloured flag blowing in the wind ...
> emptiness is emptiness.
Interesting take on the problem. It may be helpfull if
we now invoke the great dharani, the dharani of all
dharanis, that is, the Heart Dharani (or Sutra).
As you may already know, this sutra is the most
revered of all the sutras, recited daily in thousands
of Buddhist sanghas.
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The Heart Sutra
The noble Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva,
while practicing the deep practice of Prajnaparamita,
looked upon the Five Skandhas
and seeing they were empty of self-existence,
said, "Here, Shariputra,
form is emptiness, emptiness is form;
emptiness is not separate from form,
form is not separate from emptiness;
whatever is form is emptiness,
whatever is emptiness is form.
The same holds for sensation and perception,
memory and consciousness.
Here, Shariputra, all dharmas are defined by emptiness
not birth or destruction, purity or defilement,
completeness or deficiency.
Therefore, Shariputra, in emptiness there is no form,
no sensation, no perception, no memory and no
consciousness;
no eye, no ear, no nose, no tongue, no body and no
mind;
no shape, no sound, no smell, no taste, no feeling and
no thought;
no element of perception, from eye to conceptual
consciousness;
no causal link, from ignorance to old age and death;
no suffering, no source, no relief, no path;
no knowledge, no attainment and no non-attainment.
Therefore, Shariputra, without attainment,
bodhisattvas take refuge in Prajnaparamita
and live without walls of the mind.
Without walls of the mind and thus without fears,
they see through delusions and finally through
nirvana.
All buddhas past, present and future
also take refuge in Prajnaparamita
and realize unexcelled, perfect enlightenment.
You should therefore know the great mantra of
Prajnaparamita,
the mantra of great magic,
the unexcelled mantra,
the mantra equal to the unequalled,
which heals all suffering and is true, not false,
the mantra in Prajnaparamita spoken thus:
'Gata gate, paragate, parasangate, bodhi svaha.'
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In here, we find the famous "form is emptiness,
emptiness is form;" line.
I'd be curious to learn how did you manage to thwart
this teaching and to arrive at "form is form...
emptiness is emptiness"?
Alex
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