བཅམ་ལྡན་འདས་མ་ཤས་རབ་ཀྱ་ཕ་རལ་ཏ་ཕྱན་པའ་སྙང་པ 2

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At that time the Blessed One rested in an absorption on the categories of phenomena called illumination of the profound.³⁵

At the same time,³⁶ the bodhisattva great being, noble Avalokiteśvara, while practicing the profound perfection of wisdom, looked and saw that the five aggregates are also³⁷ empty of an intrinsic nature.³⁸

Then, due to the Buddha’s power, venerable Śāriputra³⁹ asked the bodhisattva great being, noble Avalokiteśvara, “How should sons of noble family or daughters of noble family⁴⁰ train if they wish to engage in the practice of the profound perfection of wisdom?”

The bodhisattva great being, noble Avalokiteśvara, replied to venerable Śāradvatīputra,⁴¹ “Śāriputra, sons of noble family or daughters of noble family who wish to engage in the practice of the profound perfection of wisdom should see things in this way: they should correctly observe the five aggregates to be empty of an intrinsic nature.⁴²

“Form is empty.⁴³ Emptiness is form. Emptiness is not other than form, and form is also not other than emptiness.⁴⁴ In the same way, feeling, perception, formation,⁴⁵ and consciousness are empty.

“Śāriputra, therefore, all phenomena are emptiness; they are without characteristics, unborn, unceasing, without stains, without absence of stains,⁴⁶ not deficient, and not complete.

“Śāriputra, therefore, in emptiness there is no form, no feeling, no perception, no formations, no consciousness, no eye, no ear, no nose, no tongue, no body, no mind, no form, no sound, no smell, no taste, no texture, and no mental object.

“There is no element of the eye,