2022-08-21 Latona Skandhas_v2.pdf
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Avalokiteshvara, the avatar of compassion, when deeply immersed in the practice of the perfection of wisdom, clearly saw that the five pillars that make us human have no independent self-existence. They inter-are, depend, and rely on the rest of the universe, space, and time. Thus Avalokiteshvara relieved all dis-ease and unsatisfactoriness.
He said: Student Shariputra, sensory data including mental images do not differ from emptiness of a separate, independent self. Such sensory data are empty of weightiness, empty of burden, empty of boundary. Emptiness does not differ from sensory data. Sensory data itself is emptiness, emptiness itself is sensory data.
Liking and disliking does not differ from emptiness, emptiness does not differ from liking and disliking. Likes and dislikes are empty of weightiness, empty of burden, empty of boundary.
Labeling does not differ from emptiness, emptiness does not differ from labeling. Labels are empty of weightiness, empty of burden, empty of boundary.
Words, deeds, and thoughts conditioned by previous experience do not differ from emptiness, emptiness does not differ from words, deeds, and thoughts. Our predispositions are empty of weightiness, empty of burden, empty of boundary.
Consciousness does not differ from emptiness, emptiness does not differ from consciousness. Consciousness itself is emptiness, emptiness itself is consciousness.
Shariputra, all forms and experiences are marked by being empty of a separate, independent self; they neither arise nor cease, are neither defiled nor pure, neither increase nor decrease.
