Heart Sutra: An Introduction - Jinyin Temple English Dharma Talk & Meditation

For this upcoming October Monthly Gathering, we will meet on October 16 from 2:00-3:30pm for an English Dharma Talk & Practice on the Heart Sutra.

In a 1.5- to 2-hour session via Zoom, we will lead you through a close reading of the first section of the Heart Sutra, a short but influential sutra on the perfection of (transcendent) wisdom (Prajñāpāramitā), and learn about the abstract yet highly applicable teachings from this sacred text.

This will be followed by an introduction of a mantra included in the Heart Sutra and a half-hour sitting practice incorporating the chanting and meditative practices with the mantra.

gate gate pāragate pārasaṃgate bodhi svāhā

"gone, gone, everyone gone to the other shore, awakening, svaha."

Avalokiteśvara or Guanyin Bodhisattva is an interlocutor in the Heart Sutra. S/He is the Bodhisattva who embodies the compassion of all Buddhas. Although Avalokiteśvara Bodhisattva manifested himself as a Bodhisattva, he…