1, wash your hands and rinse your mouth before reading the scriptures, dress neatly, and the table where the scriptures are placed should be clean and tidy without other sundries.
2. When reading the Bible, sit up straight, then concentrate on reading the Bible and see the length of the Buddhist scriptures. Try not to interrupt in the middle, and read one book at a time, or half or several books.
3. When reading scripture, don't think about the meaning of scripture, just read it, because when we think about the meaning of scripture with consciousness, we are actually delusional. If you want to understand the meaning of scripture, you can study it specially and read it bit by bit. That's not the same as reading Buddhist scriptures.
4. Don't read the Bible in bed and other unclean places. Don't lick your feet or pick your nose when reading. In short, make sure your hands are clean.
5. After reading the book, close it. It can't be opened or put on the table. Don't put the classics on the bed, put them on the highest shelf. Other books should at least not be higher than Buddhist scriptures.
When reading the Heart Sutra, be respectful, read more, don't know what it means, and don't think about how its words are written. If we want to know its meaning and how to write it, we can understand the Heart Sutra. Prejudice meaning and foreign languages will make us cling to it and hinder us from understanding its true meaning.