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Heart Sutra Text

and is saved from all suffering.

Paraphrase
This insight provides liberation (the direct perception of Reality), freedom from suffering.

Commentary

Deliverance from all sufferings results in the attainment of happiness and liberation. In additional to knowing emptiness, Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva continues to penetrate, and crosses beyond all suffering and difficulty. There are Three Sufferings, Eight Sufferings and infinite kinds of sufferings. By penetrating insight, it is possible to avoid all kinds of suffering.