Finding Your True Self with the Wisdom of the Heart Sutra

This book is compiled based on a series of online live broadcasts with the theme of the Heart Sutra as interpreted by the Teacher Zhi Xin. The Heart Sutra, also known as the Prajna Paramita Hrdaya Sutra, has only 260 words to express the most profound meanings in the simplest way, is the core of the 600-volume Daihannya. As the heart is to a person, so it is the core of the message from Buddha. Prajna Paramita is the most perfect and fundamental wisdom. It contains everything and is the general principle of all Buddhist practice!

This book shares with us teacher Zhi Xin's ideas of how to use this prajna wisdom to break through the barriers in our life to recognize and find our true self! How to get rid of all illusions, let all pains and troubles resolve themselves, and then let goodness be born from emptiness with amazing effect! How to get rid of overwhelming ego and dharma-graha, think outside of all relativity and right and wrong, and not be restricted or affected by any concept, so as to achieve the most fundamental liberation!

This book provides an important methodology on how to enable the witness prajna through the literal prajna. It is only with the help of the witness prajna that the literal prajna can really work to the fullest extent and ultimately lead to the Prajna of Reality, to the breaking down of the mystery and to enlightenment!

In his book, Teacher Zhi Xin provides an in-depth analysis of the barriers of five skandhas of our physical body: form, feeling, thinking, formation, and consciousness; and the barriers of seven-layered structure: the physical body, physical body-driven consciousness, sixth or acquired consciousness, mind consciousness, soul or manas consciousness, super spiritual body, and alaya consciousness. Only after understanding the structure of this life, the composition of consciousness, does the true knowledge of life begin.