Lan DaoSheng

Contains excerpt from the Heart Sutra in Chinese, which is the inspiration to the poem.

lyrics

Sweet, sweet, sweet
Emptiness
Nothing more
And surely nothing less

There is nothing we may loose
‘Cause there is nothing we possess

舍利子．色不異空．空不異色．色即是空．空即是色．受想行識．亦復如是.
舍利子．是諸法空相．不生不滅．不垢不淨．不增不減．是故空中無色．無受想行識.

Form is emptiness
Emptiness is form
There is no being born
And there’s no ageing and no death

All is emptiness
Beautiful, beautiful emptiness

菩提薩埵．依般若波羅蜜多故．心無罣礙.

No eyes, no ears, no wisdom, no consciousness
No suffering, no bitterness
No knowledge, no ignorance
No beginning, no end
No getting lost, ‚cause there is no path

揭諦．揭諦．波羅揭諦．波羅僧揭諦．菩提薩婆訶．
揭諦．揭諦．波羅揭諦．波羅僧揭諦．菩提薩婆訶．
揭諦．揭諦．波羅揭諦．波羅僧揭諦．菩提薩婆訶．
薩婆訶．
薩婆訶．

from Saved (Soulsingin’), released June 8, 2022
Music: Lan DaoSheng
English lyrics: Lan Daosheng
Chinese lyrics: Traditional (from the Heart Sutra)

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