Prajnaparamita

Homage to the perfection of wisdom, the lovely, the holy! Avalokita, the holy lord and bodhisattva, was moving in the deep course of the wisdom which has gone beyond. He looked down from on high, he beheld but five heaps, and he saw that in their own being

Remember, you have to stop only when there is no answer coming, not before it. If some answer is coming that, "You are this, you are this," then know well that some center is providing you with an answer. When all the six centers have been crossed and all their answers canceled, you go on asking, "Who am I?" and no answer comes from anywhere, it is utter silence. Your question resounds in yourself: "Who am I?" and there is silence, no answer arises from anywhere, from any corner. You are absolutely present, absolutely silent, and there is not even a vibration. "Who am I?" -- and only silence. Then a miracle happens: you cannot even formulate the question. Answers have become absurd; then finally the question also becomes absurd. First answers disappear, then the question also disappears -- because they can live only together. They are like two sides…

Therefore one should know the prajnaparamita as the great spell, the spell of great knowledge, the utmost spell, the unequalled spell, allayer of all suffering, in truth -- for what could go wrong? By the prajnaparamita has this spell been delivered. It runs like this: gone, gone, gone beyond, gone altogether beyond, o what an awakening, all-hail! This completes the heart of perfect wisdom.

The old physics, the old science, had no glimpse about the principle of uncertainty. The principle of uncertainty means the principle of freedom. Now, little glimpses are happening. Now they are not so certain as they used to be. Now they see that at the deepest, in matter too there is a certain quality of freedom. It is very difficult to say whether the electron is a particle or a wave: it behaves both ways, sometimes this way, sometimes that way. And there is no way to predict it. It is a quanta. And not only that -- its freedom is such that sometimes simultaneously it behaves like a wave and like a particle. That is utterly impossible for the old scientist even to conceive or understand. Aristotle would not be able to understand it, Newton would not be able to understand it. That is impossible to see. That is…

Question: VAJRACHCHEDIKA PRAJNAPARAMITA SUTRA OF GAUTAMA THE BUDDHA AND WHY? BECAUSE, SUBHUTI, IN THESE BODHISATTVAS NO PERCEPTION OF A SELF TAKES PLACE, NO PERCEPTION OF A BEING, NO PERCEPTION OF A SOUL, NO PERCEPTION OF A PERSON. NOR DO THESE BODHISATTVAS HAVE A PERCEPTION OF A DHAMMA A PERCEPTION OF A NO-DHAMMA OR NO PERCEPTION OR NON-PERCEPTION TAKES PLACE IN THEM. AND WHY? IF, SUBHUTI, THESE BODHISATTVAS, SHOULD HAVE A PERCEPTION OF EITHER A DHAMMA, OR A NO-DHAMMA, THEY WOULD THEREBY SEIZE ON A SELF, ON A BEING, ON A SOUL, ON A PERSON. AND WHY? BECAUSE A BODHISATTVA SHOULD NOT SEIZE ON EITHER A DHAMMA OR A NO-DHAMMA. THEREFORE THIS SAYING HAS BEEN TAUGHT BY THE TATHAGATA WITH A HIDDEN MEANING: "BY THOSE WHO KNOW THE DISCOURSE ON DHAMMA AS LIKE UNTO A RAFT, DHAMMAS SHOULD BE FORSAKEN, STILL MORE SO, NO-DHAMMAS.