Here is a link to the Red Pine translation if anyone would like to take a look
Gassho, Allan
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Gassho, Allan
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Last edited by Shinshi; 11-04-2017, 08:19 PM.空道 心志 Kudo Shinshi
I am just a priest-in-training, any resemblance between what I post and actual teachings is purely coincidental.
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Heart Sutra Translation
Thank Jundo and everyone for your input. I agree it feels a little off, but I am bit of a novice so don’t really trust my feelings. That is why I asked. I think I will stick with the version used by our sangha for my daily recitation during Ango to keep things simple. I have several unfinished books in my library and was happy to discover one was Awaking of the Heart by TNH. It has commentaries on several of the more famous sutras. One is the Heart Sutra. So, I will start there and perhaps move on to Red Pine. I enjoyed his translation as well. Thank you all [emoji1374]
Sat2day/ and happy to add LAH for the first time todayLast edited by Troy; 11-04-2017, 06:54 PM.Comment
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Thank you, Shoshin.Here is a link to the Red Pine translation if anyone would like to take a look
http://appamada.pbworks.com/f/Heart%...Red%20Pine.pdf
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Kokuu
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All the translations have some merit but I like Treeleaf's best as it chants better than others. (Plus I have it memorized!) It's a good thing to use as a tool to practice mindfulness as if my mind wonders, I forget where I was in the chant or what's next.
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As one of my Ango vows, I said that I would learn, explore, more about The Heart Sutra, and The Diamond Sutra. I have re-read, and rer-read Thich Naht Hanh's commentary on the heart sutra, and read his translation of The Heart Sutra, 2014. I am reading Red Pine's commentary, very slow going for one as inexperienced as me, and only now found "a translation" of The Diamond Sutra. Where does one know more about emptiness? I have sought to know more as in acceptance of old age, not old age in understanding my own frail body at age 66, and unlike some, my body is frail. I seek liberation from fear, so fear, and not fear, form is emptiness, emptiness is form, so my own emptiness might begin a process, maybe a chain of ideas as in Thich Nhat Hanh, and finding understanding of old age in Red Pine, but I believe all is for a while constant re-reading toward some acceptance.
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GasshoPeaceful, Tai Shi. Ubasoku; calm, supportive, for positive poetry 優婆塞 台 婆Comment
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Here is a link to the Red Pine translation if anyone would like to take a look
Gassho, Allan
Sat-LaH
Kaidō (皆道) Every Way
Washin (和信) Harmony Trust
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I am a novice priest-in-training. Anything that I say must not be considered as teaching
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Hey folks,
I just saw this as a Youtube suggestion ... the Heart Sutra is beautiful is so many ways. =)
Gassho
Shingen
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空道 心志 Kudo Shinshi
I am just a priest-in-training, any resemblance between what I post and actual teachings is purely coincidental.
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Kaidō (皆道) Every Way
Washin (和信) Harmony Trust
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I am a novice priest-in-training. Anything that I say must not be considered as teaching
and should be taken with a 'grain of salt'.Comment
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I recite a version I found in a book by Bernie Glassman, mostly because it's handy. I don't think it's much different to the Treeleaf version - maybe just in a few words here and there. If I can't find the book I recite the one I memorised in the FWBO, which is quite beautiful. I do find that chanting the Treeleaf version has a different effect on my mind than just reading aloud...my mind is much stiller after the rhythmic chanting.
Am happy to post the Bernie Glassman version if anyone is interested but I don't think it's much different.
Tai Shi, I love the Diamond Sutra although I haven't read it for years. I think this is the version I read https://www.amazon.co.uk/Diamond-Sut...sutra+hui+neng
This is my favourite quote from the sutra - I had it on the back of the bathroom door for years:
Thus shall you view this fleeting world:
A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream,
A flash of lightning in a summer cloud,
A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream.
It would be a wonderful sutra to study here sometime....
Gassho
Lucy
ST/LAHLast edited by Guest; 11-07-2017, 08:43 AM.Comment
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Thank you Lucy. I struggle with the chanting because I don’t know how to pronounce some of the words very well, so I get distracted with that. I have heard from others as well that chanting brings stillness. Hoping it will be the same for me one day too. Deep bows
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