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The Heart
Sutra
"THEREFORE,
IN THE VOID THERE ARE NO FORMS, NO
FEELINGS, PERCEPTIONS, VOLITIONS OR CONSCIOUSNESS;"
The Buddha knew
that repetition is essential to learning; he explained further that
there is form because the mind craves it, and when mind releases
its hold, form ceases to exist. It does not have any independent
nature of its own. Additionally, there are no feelings, no perceptions,
no volitions and no consciousness in the supramundane Emptiness
of True Existence. He returned to the fundamental Skandha Dharma
again and again to explain the essential Emptiness of all existence.
He hoped to make the path of liberation be known by teaching it
continually.
In this paragraph
I will shed light on the meaning of the phrase "all Dharmas
are Voidness." The fundamental Dharma of Five Skandhas teaches
that all five skandhas are empty, which means that there are really
no skandhas. They are not the substance, but only the function,
or worldly dharma; just as all buddhas and bodhisattvas, the skandhas
are rooted entirely in the Dharma of Emptiness.
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