The next words of the Heart Sutra are shorthand for The Eightfold Path

No/ suf/fer/ing/, nor/ cause/ or/ end/ to/ suf/fer/ing/
No/ path/, no/ wis/dom/ and/ no/ gain/.

… We will next take a few days to review that Path

… which, with the Four Noble Truths, is at the very heart of the Buddha’s Teachings.

But before we do … let’s again recall what the Heart Sutra is saying about all this …

… that the Truths, and the Path, are burned away in the fires of Emptiness.

There is no suffering,
no Truth of suffering, its cause, its end …
and no Path to that end.


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