The Heart Sutra

One of the central sutras in Mahayana Buddhism. It is particularly important in Zen because of its teaching about emptiness. The key idea of this teaching is: "Form is no other than emptiness, emptiness is no other than form.
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Quan Yin Seated on Lotus Throne Holding Heart Sutra Scroll
Prajnaparamita Mantra - Bát Nhã Ba La Mật Đa (câu chú)
Prajnaparamita Mantra (Heart Sūtra) - Bát Nhã Ba La Mật Đa (câu chú)
Once we accept the fact that body, heart, and mind are inseparable, we can become free of the struggle to make the mind, spirit, or soul remain active after the body stops working. Everything is interconnected, and after death no part of us stays as it was. You may go to heaven, paradise, or hell, or be reborn into this world with the deepest, unknowable part of yourself, but it is extremely unlikely that any part of your body or mind will be brought with you as it now is.
The Heart Sutra
The Pragna Paramita
No ignorance, no extinction of ignorance, and so on, up to no old age and....
Everyone who recites the Heart Sutra knows that "the mind is unborn and undying." But they haven't sounded the source of the Unborn. They still have the idea that they can find their way to the unborn mind and attain Buddhahood by using reason and discrimination. As soon as the notion to seek Buddhahood or to attain the Way enters your mind, you've gone astray from the Unborn- Zen master Bankei—gone against what is unborn in you...
ZERONESS IS FREEDOM Mahayana’s philosophical interpretation of “zeroness” (ṡūnyatā) led to a revolution in Buddhist thinking. Zeroness represented the lack of absolute value and substantiality of the phenomenal world. The notion of zeroness evolved from the earlier Buddhist teaching of anātman, or no-self — the denial of the substantial reality of the self and what belongs to the self — as a means to free one from attachment
Deva Premal, Dancing Leaf - Gaté Gaté, Love is Space
Deva Premal, Dancing Leaf - Gaté Gaté, Love is Space