{"id":349731,"date":"2022-05-05T00:12:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T04:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=349731"},"modified":"2022-05-06T17:59:02","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T21:59:02","slug":"maitreyas-favorite-song-performed-by-lotus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/maitreyas-favorite-song-performed-by-lotus\/","title":{"rendered":"Heart Sutra performed by Lotus"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>RAEL&#8217;S COMMENT:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">My favorite\u00a0song of Lotus with lyrics originally from Buddha, which come from a thousand years old stone found in China. <\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong><!--more--><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__summary summary \">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Heart Sutra (English subtitle)\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fva-3ANZbSs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Lotus<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-349733\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/lotus-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Editors note: there are many translations. I added the one that was simplest to read and well researched.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article__summary summary \">\n<p>Red Pine translation<\/p>\n<p>The noble Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva,<br \/>\nwhile practicing the deep practice of Prajnaparamita,<br \/>\nlooked upon the Five Skandhas<br \/>\nand seeing they were empty of self-existence,<\/p>\n<p>said, &#8220;Here, Shariputra,<br \/>\nform is emptiness, emptiness is form;<br \/>\nemptiness is not separate from form, form is not separate from emptiness;<br \/>\nwhatever is form is emptiness, whatever is emptiness is form.<br \/>\nThe same holds for sensation and perception, memory and consciousness.<\/p>\n<p>Here, Shariputra, all dharmas are defined by emptiness<br \/>\nnot birth or destruction, purity or defilement, completeness or deficiency.<br \/>\nTherefore, Shariputra, in emptiness there is no form,<br \/>\nno sensation, no perception, no memory and no consciousness;<br \/>\nno eye, no ear, no nose, no tongue, no body and no mind;<\/p>\n<p>no shape, no sound, no smell, no taste, no feeling and no thought;<br \/>\nno element of perception, from eye to conceptual consciousness;<br \/>\nno causal link, from ignorance to old age and death,<br \/>\nand no end of causal link, from ignorance to old age and death;<br \/>\nno suffering, no source, no relief, no path;<\/p>\n<p>no knowledge, no attainment and no non-attainment.<br \/>\nTherefore, Shariputra, without attainment,<br \/>\nbodhisattavas take refuge in Prajnaparamita<br \/>\nand live without walls of the mind.<br \/>\nWithout walls of the mind and thus without fears,<\/p>\n<p>they see through delusions and finally nirvana.<br \/>\nAll buddhas past, present and future<br \/>\nalso take refuge in Prajnaparamita<br \/>\nand realize unexcelled, perfect enlightenment.<br \/>\nYou should therefore know the great mantra of Prajnaparamita,<\/p>\n<p>the mantra of great magic,<br \/>\nthe unexcelled mantra,<br \/>\nthe mantra equal to the unequalled,<br \/>\nwhich heals all suffering and is true, not false,<br \/>\nthe mantra in Prajnaparamita spoken thus:<br \/>\n&#8216;Gate gate, paragate, parasangate, bodhi svaha.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oaks.nvg.org\/heart-sutra.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source of translation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fva-3ANZbSs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Video<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/rael.maitreya\/posts\/10160382322314345\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL&#8217;S COMMENT:\u00a0 My favorite\u00a0song of Lotus with lyrics originally from Buddha, which come from a thousand years old stone found in China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":349736,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}