Jul 14, 2026

Heart sutra

They bring suffering to you. They give you the illusion that they are going to bring sweetness, light or beauty. But all that they bring is suffering, not light. All that they bring is misery, not beauty, not peace.

If you remain uninfluenced by the form you see, the feelings you feel, the perspectives you have, the definitions you hold, the conclusions you draw, and the identity you maintain, then you are free from all suffering in life. Because all sufferings arise from either forms, sensations, perceptions, mental patterns, or the individual self—the identity you hold. If you can just observe all of them from a certain distance, they start falling off. These are the five skandhas. If you are free from them, you are free from all.

YOU ARE FREE FROM ALL

—Sadho