Friday 28 January 2011

Emptiness and form

Form is emptiness; emptiness is form.
Emptiness is not other than form; form is not other than emptiness.
Similarly, feelings, discriminations, compositional factors, and consciousnesses are empty.
These are important sentences from "Heart Sutra", if you have interest, please refer to

These are the main mantra mentioned in heart sutra:
  • Roman script: gate gate pāragate pārasaṃgate bodhi svāhā
  • Devanāgarī: गते गते पारगते पारसंगते बोधि स्वाहा
  • Tibetan: ག༌ཏེ༌ག༌ཏེ༌པཱ༌ར༌ག༌ཏེ༌པཱ༌ར༌སཾ༌ག༌ཏེ༌བོ༌དྷི༌སྭཱ༌ཧཱ།
  • Pronunciation: ɡəteː ɡəteː paːɾəɡəteː paːɾəsəŋɡəte boːdʱɪ sʋaːɦa

  • May all beings rest in warm and peace mind.
  • p.s. It's so cold outside, I can't see any homeless people on the street as usual.
  • Does anyone know where they live or stay in such cold weather?