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Heart Sutra: The Power of Disillusionment

May 6, 2022
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Updated: Jan 12, 2025

Seido talks about the Heart Sutra as a process of “disillusionment” – a teaching that takes everything away to reveal something of great value. Rather than be a depressing failure of life, Zen celebrates the liberating moment of disillusionment that brings us closer to things as they are when we can see through our insistence that things turn out the way we planned.




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