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The full text of "Heart Sutra" is about 260 words. From "Kumaroshi" to "Tang Xuanzang" and other translations of the Heart Sutra, the texts are similar. The "Heart Sutra" is a summary of the thoughts of the "Prajna Sutra" of Mahayana Buddhism.

The "Heart Sutra" is not the original Buddhist sutra, and its style and content are far from the original Buddhist sutra. Compared with the oldest "Za Agama Sutra" among the original Buddhist scriptures, it is not the inheritance and development of Sakyamuni's thoughts.

The "Heart Sutra" is a theory produced in the era of the formation of Mahayana Buddhism. It is a product of the social contradictions of that era. It uses "metaphysics" to promote nihilism in Chinese Buddhism and ideological circles, and has a profound influence on the thinking of Chinese Zen Buddhism. It has a profound influence. It advocates reciting mantras, which also has a profound influence on the formation of the Buddhist chanting method of Tantra and Pure Land Buddhism. Its style of subjective idealism and metaphysics forms a sharp contrast with the scientific style of original Buddhism that focuses on logical demonstration.

The "Heart Sutra" has a major negative impact on Chinese religion and philosophy.

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The core theories of the original Buddhist scriptures are: "Suffering, cessation, cessation, path, the Four Noble Truths", "Twelve Causes and Conditions", "Eightfold Path", "Four Thoughts" "Place", "Thirty-Seven Helpers", etc.;

The thoughts to be elaborated are: "The five aggregates are impermanent, all dharmas have no self, freedom from greed and suffering, and Nirvana is peaceful."

What the "Heart Sutra" preaches is "seeing that all five aggregates are empty, and overcoming all suffering", "color is not different from emptiness, emptiness is not different from color", "color is emptiness, emptiness is color", "there is no color in the sky... no suffering, set, "Destruction, Tao" and so on.

In fact, it covers or even cancels the basic theory of original Buddhism with the theory of "emptiness", and denies the order of practice of original Buddhism.

The "Heart Sutra" clearly denies the original teachings of Buddhism, but it is praised and enshrined by later generations of Buddhist circles. This strange phenomenon must be understood by studying its historical background.

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Sakyamuni lived between the 4th and 5th centuries BC. He preached through oral lectures and traveling. Although he had relatively strong persuasiveness and teaching power, the number of believers was not large during his lifetime.

According to legend, he gathered sutras and laws for the first time after his death, and there were about five hundred monks in attendance. This is similar to Confucius' "three thousand disciples and seventy-two sages": similar times, similar methods of preaching, and similar size of believers.

It is said that 235 years after the death of the "Buddha", with the support of King Ashoka, the "Tripitaka" was assembled, which finalized the "Four Agama" that has been circulated in the Buddhist sect for a long time.

In this collection, the story about King Ashoka appears in the ancient "Za Agama Sutra", and the concept of Mahayana Buddhism appears in the "Zengyi Agama Sutra". In the primitive Buddhist era, Buddhist scriptures only relied on recitation, oral transmission, and professional reciters to inherit the scriptures and laws, which made the content of Buddhist scriptures easy to change.

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The "Heart Sutra" says: "Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva, after walking in the deep Prajna Paramita for a long time, saw that the five aggregates are empty and survived all the hardships."

The "Heart Sutra" does not elaborate on the logical inevitability between "seeing that all five aggregates are empty" and "surviving all suffering". According to the original Buddhist teachings, all the sufferings of sentient beings are caused by all conditions. This exists because of the other. It cannot be eliminated, transcended, or liberated just because someone or a certain Bodhisattva "sees" it.

The meaning of "emptiness" is elaborated in Mahayana Buddhism in a very complicated and mysterious way. However, in primitive Buddhism, the meaning of "empty" is very simple and practical, that is, "impermanence" and "selflessness", so it is called "empty".

The "five aggregates", namely form, feeling, thought, action, and consciousness, are originally "impermanent" and "selfless", and are originally "empty in nature", and have nothing to do with illumination or non-illumination.

"Suffering" is not only the subjective feeling of human beings, but also the condition of freedom. If there is an origin of suffering, there will be a feeling of suffering. "Observation" can make people understand the suffering, but it cannot eliminate it.

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The "Heart Sutra" says: "Color is not different from emptiness, emptiness is not different from color, color is emptiness, emptiness is color." It confuses the "nature" and "phase" of things. Color refers to the appearance of things. All things can be distinguished and perceived based on their "phase".

The "emptiness" mentioned by "Buddha" refers to the inherent nature of all things, "impermanence" and "selflessness", which means "dependent origination" and "dependent origination". (See the third chapter of the Zayin Psalm in the Zagama Sutra.

Volume 12, Section 297 The Buddha Speaks of the Great Emptiness Sutra)

Saying that there is nothing in "emptiness" and "nothing" is nothing. These are not the teachings of the Buddha's so-called "emptiness", but It's "metaphysics." What the Buddha calls "emptiness" is the theory of dependent origination. "The five aggregates, the six roots, the six objects, the twelve causes and conditions, and the four noble truths are all established and exist due to the "theory of dependent origination". The Buddha's "theory of emptiness" is not that there is nothing, but that there is everything.

There is no "suffering, collection, cessation, or path" in "emptiness", which shows the tendency of Mahayana Buddhism to deviate from the original Buddhist principles.