What is the Heart Sutra?

Benefits of Heart Meridian: 1. Understanding emptiness: Everything in the world is formed by various causes, and everything is always in impermanence, and their essence is emptiness. 2. Open wisdom: increase wisdom and enhance the realm. 3. Break the persistence: in the firm persistence of self and the firm persistence of the external environment, resolutely surpass it. 4. karma elimination: pull back from the cliff and turn back to the shore, thus eliminating the old industry with fate. 5. Get comfortable: I won't continue to be confused by the outside world, so I will get great freedom.

The Heart Sutra can refer to the Maha Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra, which is the classic work with the least words in Buddhist scriptures. Because it has the least words, the deepest meaning, the most legends and the greatest influence. Therefore, countless artists throughout the ages have invested great energy and painstaking efforts to create the Heart Sutra into colorful works of art. ..

The full name of the Heart Sutra is the Maha Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra. It is a concise classic that condenses the prajna with huge content into the spirit of "Prajna is empty". The book quotes five elements, three subjects, twelve causes, four truths and other methods, and summarizes the truth that all methods are empty. The phrase "color is emptiness, emptiness is color" comes from this passage.

Heart Sutra, with a full text of 260 words, is concise but profound and implicit, and it condenses the essence of 600 volumes of The Great Prajna Sutra. Since the Tang Dynasty, countless calligraphers like to copy the Heart Sutra by hand, and there are many versions handed down from generation to generation.