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We have seen the Buddha’s teaching of the Four Noble Truth<\/span>s, the cause and end to Suffering (Dukkha) <\/span>via the medicine of the Eightfold Path<\/span> …<\/p>\n

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It is the Path<\/span> that Bodhisattvas<\/span> (let’s say “Beings in Search of Enlightenment<\/span>“) walk in order to gain Wisdom<\/span> and Enlightenment<\/span>, liberation from <\/span>Suffering<\/span>.<\/span><\/div>\n

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But let’s again recall what the Heart Sutra is saying about all this …<\/p>\n

… that the Truths<\/span>, the Path<\/span>, the Suffering<\/span>, the Bodhisattvas<\/span>, the Wisdom<\/span> and Enlightenment<\/span> are all burned away in the fires of Emptiness<\/span> …<\/p>\n

… yet that realization of Emptiness<\/span> –IS–<\/span> the attaining of that Truth<\/span>, the fruition of the Path<\/span>, the end of Suffering<\/span>, the gaining of Wisdom and Enlightment<\/span> by those Bodhisattvas<\/span>!<\/p>\n

Kind of like saying that the best way for a person, thinking herself a “prisoner”, to escape from an imaginary prison is not to tunnel through the illusory walls, but to realize that the fictional prison and the walls are just a dream … and that so is any “person” who is a “prisoner”<\/div>\n

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[There are no Noble Truths of] suf\/fer\/ing\/, nor\/ cause\/ or\/ end\/ to\/ suf\/fer\/ing\/;<\/p>\n

No\/ [Eightfold] Path\/, no\/ wis\/dom\/ and\/ no\/ gain\/.<\/p>\n

No\/ gain\/ \u00e2\u20ac\u201c thus\/ Bo\/dhi\/satt\/vas\/ live\/ this\/ Praj\/na\/ Pa\/ra\/mi\/ta [Perfection of Wisdom]
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