Table of Contents
Introduction 7
The Craziness of the Heart Sutra 7
Emptiness Means Letting Go 12
Grounded in Groundlessness 12
Emptiness, Dependent Origination, and Quantum Physics 15
The Buddha's Three Cycles of Teaching 16
Expressing the Inexpressible 16
The Teachings as Scriptures and Realization 20
Prajñaparamita-Perfect Wisdom Gone Beyond 22
The Flaming Sword of Prajña-Sharp, Illuminating, and Compassionate Inquisitiveness 25
Lady Prajñaparamita-Intuition Embracing Intellect 30
Prajñaparamita as Ground, Path, and Fruition 35
The Prajñaparamita Sutras 36
Complicated Simplicity 39
Prajñaparamita as a Buddhist Heresy 42
Groundless Paths 44
Dirt, Soap, and Water 48
The Undoing of Doing 51
The Commentary on the Heart Sutra 57
The Stage and the Main Actors 57
The Title 60
Transcendent Wisdom Lady Full of Qualities 60
The Heart of the Mother of All Buddhas 65
The Prologue 66
The Excellent Time 67
The Excellent Teacher 68
The Excellent Place 71
The Excellent Retinue 72
The Excellent Teaching 74
Avalokitésvara-Emptiness with a Heart of Compassion 77
Compassion in Action 81
Not Seeing the World as We Know It 83
The Main Part of the Sutra 87
Sariputra's Innocent Question 87
Avalokitesvara's Not So Innocent Short Answer 90
The Fourfold Profound Emptiness 100
Are Form and Emptiness Two Things? 102
The Middle Way without a Middle 106
All Elements of Our Body and Mind Are Like Space 117
The Eightfold Profundity 118
The Three Doors to Liberation 131
More Ways of Slicing the Cake of Illusory Phenomena 132
Even Dependent Origination Is Emptiness 139
The Demise of the Four Noble Truths 141
No Hope in Prajñaparamita Either 144
The Transparent Vajra of Fearlessness 148
Arriving at Dwelling Nowhere 154
The Mantra-The Final Leap off the Cliff 158
The Buddha's Applause 165
The Epilogue 168
A Meditation on Prajñaparamita and the Heart Sutra 169
The Sutra of the Heart of the Glorious Lady Prajñaparamita 173
Selected Bibliography 175
