The Heart Sutra

Gate, Gate, Paragate, Parasamgate, Bohdi Svaha

As the final verse of the Great Wisdom Beyond Wisdom Heart Sutra, commonly known as the Heart Sutra, this has been described to me in the following way:

            Gate                 Enter the path toward the true understanding of the emptiness of

                                    all things.

            Gate                 Look deeply and perceive the emptiness of all things;

                                    All things are empty of an independent self;

All things are inextricably intertwined.

            Paragate          Look beyond your biases and into the reality of the emptiness

of all things.

Parasamgate            Realize, accept, meditate on and internalize the emptiness of all things.

            Bohdi Svaha            Become enlightened by the reality that all things are inextricably

interconnected and basically from the One.

Also, it has been related to me that the chanted “Om” is essentially a concise statement of the same matters relating to the understanding of the emptiness and interconnectedness of all things