In the mean time, just on the off-chance that someone reads it and experiences kensho (which would be very kewl):

HEART OF PERFECT WISDOM

The Boddhisattva of Compassion
from the depths of prajna wisdom
saw the emptiness of all five
skandhas and sundered the bonds
that created suffering

Know then:

Form here is only emptiness,
emptiness only form.
Form is no other than emptiness
emptiness no other than form

Feeling, thought, and choice,
consciousness itself,
are the same as this.

Dharmas here are empty,
all are the primal void.
None are born or die.
Nor are they stained or pure,
Nor do the wax or wane.

So in emptiness no form,
no feeling, thought, or choice
nor is there consciousness.

No eye, ear, nose,
tongue, body mind:
no color, sound, smell,
taste, touch,or what
the mind takes hold of,
nor even act of sensing.

No ignorance or end of it
nor all that comes of ignorance:
no withering, no death,
no end of them.

Nor is there pain or cause of pain
Or cease in pain or noble path
to lead from pain,
not even wisdom to attain,
attainment too is emptiness.

So know that the Bodhisattva
holding to nothing whatever
but dwelling in prajna wisdom
is freed of delusive hinderance,
rid of the fear bred by it,
and reaches clearest Nirvana.

All Buddhas of past and present,
Buddhas of future time
through faith in Prajna wisdom
come to full enlightenment.

Know, then, the Great dharani,
the radiant, peerless mantra,
the supreme unfailing mantra,
the Prajna Paramita,
whose words allay all pain.
This is the highest wisdom
true beyond all doubt,
know and proclaim its truth:

Gate', Gate'
para gate'
Para sam gate'
bodhi, svaha!

  Translation from Roshi Philip Kapleau's book, Zen, Merging of East and West.

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