Saturday, June 18, 2011

GATE GATE PARA GATE PARASAMGATE BODHI SVAHA!

There are many translations.  A few:

"Going, going, going on beyond, always going on beyond, always becoming Buddha."
http://www.interluderetreat.com/meditate/ppsutra.htm

"go, go, go beyond, go thoroughly beyond, and establish yourself in enlightenment"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_Sutra#Tibetan_exegesis

"Gone, Gone, Gone beyond Gone utterly beyond.  Oh what an Awakening"
http://www.sanghalou.org/heart_suttra.htm

what this famous line means to me, lately:

every phenomenal arising of every moment is always passing.  everything is already gone.  everything is going as soon as it is here.  there's nothing that doesn't return to where it came from.

included in this, is the fiction of the self.  when the self is seen to be non-existent in reality, or outside of reality, there appears to be a de-conditioning, obviously within the arising of phenomenon.  the apparent parts of reality that used to be held as proof of identity are also going, going, going.  liberation seems like a good word for this.

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