Prajnaparamita Sutra-- 25  Doors
translation: JW
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Thus have I heard at one time.

The Lord Buddha dwelt on the summit of Mount Sumeru, which at night is a dwelling place of gods and innumerable bodhisattvas. Also assembled there, spread out in a great circle, were two hundred and fifty close disciples, along with extensive divisions of deities, spirits, ghosts, and demons--  all to be in the presence of the Lord and to listen to the Dharma.

Suddenly from above, Maha-Bodhisattva Vajrapani descended into the presence of the Lord Buddha, genuflected, and circumambulated the Lord three times, before sitting down to the right of the Blessed One.

The Blessed One spoke to Vajrapaņi:

(1) Om. Awakening the diamond mind is a door to prajnaparamita. 

(2) Om. Purification is a door to prajnaparamita. 

(3) Om. The wishing jewel is a door to prajnaparamita. 

(4) Om. Ever-flowing is a door to prajnaparamita. 

(5) Om. Non-returning is a door to prajnaparamita.

(6) Om. Pure awareness is a door to prajnaparamita. 

(7) Om. Divine play is a door to prajnaparamita. 

(8) Om. Fearlessness is a door to prajnaparamita. 

(9) Om. Everywhere-going is a door to prajnaparamita. 

(10) Om. Diamond thought, yes! is a door to prajnaparamita.

(11) Om. The Tathagatas are a door to prajnaparamita. 

(12) Om. No own-being of own-being is a door to prajnaparamita.

(13) Om. Cognition of the emptiness of all dharmas is a door to prajnaparamita. 

(14) Om. The purification of karma, yes! is a door to prajnaparamita.

(15) Om. Diamond cutter, yes! is a door to prajnaparamita.

(16) Om. Abandonment of sense-desire is a door to prajnaparamita.

(17) Om. Diamond restraint, yes! is a door to prajnaparamita.

(18) Om. Nowhere-going is a door to prajnaparamita.

(19) Om. Heedfulness is a door to prajnaparamita. 

(20) Om. The first letter is a door to prajnaparamita. 

(21) Om.  Prajnaparamita, prajnaparamita, yes! is a door to prajnaparamita.

(22) Om. Timelessness is a door to prajnaparamita.

(23) Om. The supreme excellence of the body of all Tathagatas is a door to prajnaparamita. 

(24) Om. The purity of the speech of all Tathagatas is a door to prajnaparamita.

(25) Om. The thunderbolt mind of all Tathagatas, yes! is a door to prajnaparamita.

Thus spoke the Lord Buddha. 

Vajrapani along with the whole assembly rejoiced at the Lord's teaching.