The Heart Sutra (MP3 CD)

Description

The Heart Sutra is a concise teaching on Prajnaparamita, The Perfection of Wisdom. The Heart Sutra presents a series of negations that directly challenge our dualistic view and our deeply held sense of self. It teaches the profound Buddhist view of emptiness. As a Mahayana text, it is deeply rooted in the attitude of loving-kindness and compassion for all beings. Deep within the sutra is a presentation of the unity of wisdom and compassion that is the limitless experience of enlightened mind. Khenpo Tashi’s clear and profound teaching emphasizes this ultimate view. Translated by Michele Martin. Five talks on 1 MP3 CD. Recorded with Track points at transitions between Tibetan and English.

Features

Track Pointing on Audio Recordings (CDs and MP3CDs)
This audio recording is “track-pointed” rather than “Mainly English”. That is, all the Tibetan teaching is on the MP3 CD. If you do nothing when playing these recordings, you will hear the full teaching as it happened. However, at any time during the Tibetan if you push the Next Track button (>>|) on the MP3 player or its remote control, the player will jump to the start of the English translation of that section of the teaching. If you push the Next Track button during the English translation, you will jump ahead to the next section of Tibetan teaching.

MP3CD Recordings
MP3CDs look like ordinary CDs, but contain compressed audio files. While a regular audio CD holds a maximum of only 80 minutes of recorded audio, an identical-looking MP3CD can easily hold the audio files from an entire weekend or even week-long teaching. MP3CDs can be played in a computer and/or the audio files can be downloaded into an iPod or similar device. MP3CDs may also be played on a portable MP3CD player. Most ordinary CD players, such as the CD player in most older cars (roughly 2005 and earlier), will not play MP3CDs. Many but not all cars 2006 or later do have MP3-capable CD players. Any car or home stereo CD player that is capable of playing an MP3CD will have “MP3” or “MP3-WMA” clearly marked on the front of it.
The MP3CDs available for sale on this web site are all clearly labeled and packaged in a clear case. The audio files on them have proper ID3 tag information, which means that on a computer, iPod or similar device the audio files will display (and can be searched by) Album (Title of teaching), Song (Talk number within a teaching) and Artist (Teacher).