"When the Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara was practicing the profound Prajna Paramita, he illuminated the Five Skandhas and saw that they are all empty, and he crossed beyond all suffering and difficulty."
"Shariputra, form does not differ from emptiness; emptiness does not differ from form. Form itself is emptiness; emptiness itself is form. So too are feeling, cognition, formation, and consciousness."
"Shariputra, all dharmas are marked with emptiness; they do not arise or cease, are not defiled or pure, and do not increase or decrease."
"Therefore, in emptiness there is no form, feeling, cognition, formation, or consciousness; no eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, or mind; no sights, sounds, smells, tastes, objects of touch, or dharmas; no field of the eyes and so on up to no field of consciousness."
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The sky was just beginning to lighten with the first hint of dawn. Inside the main hall of Sikong Temple, monks sat upright, performing their unfailing daily morning prayers.
