The Heart Sutra Quotes

“Gone, gone, gone way beyond all conditioned forms and suffering, to the Absolute, Awakening is complete! Gone, gone, gone way beyond all conditioned forms and suffering, to the Absolute, Awakening is complete! Gone, gone, gone way beyond all conditioned forms and suffering, to the Absolute, Awakening is complete!”
― Andre Doshim Halaw, The Heart Sutra: A Meditational Manual

“all dharmas are empty of self-existence; they are groundless, fleeting, and dream-like. Use the wisdom of emptiness to sever your attachment to, and mis-identification with, them, and realize the Unborn, Unoriginated, and Unconditioned. The formless Absolute does not appear or disappear, is not tainted or pure, does not increase or decrease.”
― Andre Doshim Halaw, The Heart Sutra: A Meditational Manual

“Emptiness doesn’t take anything away from a flower or a bee; rather, it’s exactly what allows them to be what they are. It doesn’t represent a lack in a negative sense at all; in fact, if emptiness expresses a lack of anything at all, it is a lack of boundaries, limits, and separation. Emptiness sustains reality. Paradoxically, it is this very lack of a primary essence, self, or ingredient that makes reality possible in the first place.”
― Andre Doshim Halaw, The Heart Sutra: A Meditational Manual