The heart of the universe - Soeng Mu

The Heart Sutra, an ancient scripture from the Mahayana wisdom schools of Buddhism, offers us insight into the nature of an ultimate reality perceived through intuitive wisdom. The spaciousness of this approach allows the heart to beat in its naturalness, beyond disputations and ideological arguments. Fascinatingly, now quantum physics begum increasingly find some interesting parallels to the basic insights of the Heart Sutra-and in this important offering from Mu Soeng, we can start to see how intellectual and the intuitive can begun to meet. Indeed, the convergence between science and mysticism, between Eastern thought and Western pragmatism and empiricism, and the consequent emergence of a new paradigm in recent times, offer a renewed hope that we can transform ourselves and the world around us. In offering a commentary on this important piece of the world's great religious literature, The Heart of the Universe establishes a broad context to encounter the Heart Sutra on many levels-historical, spiritual, and empirical-each serving to interdependently illuminate the other.