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Experiencing The Heart Sutra

A vastly personal looking into the Prajnaparamita-hridaya Sutra, more commonly known as the Heart Sutra. Through this course, we will take beginners' look into what the Heart Sutra is and has to say concerning not only Buddhism but the way that we interact with the practice of meditation and life itself.

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Silas Day

Bentonville, AR, USA

Silas Day is an up and coming voice in the emerging discussion between the 2,500 year old tradition of Buddhism and modern day life. Silas has been passionately obsessed with the study of Buddhism and meditation for the past twelve years and been teaching for the past six.

9 Days

1.3k students

4.8 stars

15 min / day

Grounded

English

Lesson 1

Introduction and Perspective

In this lesson, we give perspective to the Heart Sutra and the course as a whole. Silas tells us about his experience learning about it and posits questions and thoughts to consider throughout not only the course but in your meditation practice in general.

Lesson 2

What is the Heart Sutra?

In this lesson, Silas discusses what the Heart Sutra is. Giving the Heart Sutras historical, spiritual, and religious context. As well Silas discusses the different ways in which we can work with the Heart Sutra and the different levels that we can work with it together.

Lesson 3

Reading Of The Heart Sutra

In this Lesson, we will be reading the heart sutra together to see just how short yet absolutely packed with information it is. If you ever want to contextualize the rest of the Heart Sutra with the following lessons, come back to this lesson and give the full thing a re-listen.

Lesson 4

Analyzing and Understanding The Title

In this lesson, Silas goes in-depth into each of the words contained within the Title showing how each contains a myriad of studies in themselves. Each word is given the care, study, and joy to give you the complete picture as to why it is called this and what that means to us.

Lesson 5

The First Stanza

In this lesson Silas goes over the first Stanza of the Heart Sutra, covering what each phrase, line, and word means and providing context to the overall Sutra from just this Stanza.

Lesson 6

The Second Stanza

In This lesson Silas covers the second stanza of the Heart Sutra which gets into the main topic of the Heart Sutra itself: Emptiness.

Lesson 7

The Third Stanza Of The Heart Sutra

In this lesson Silas goes over the vast amount of negation which is present in the Heart Sutra working with each and showing that they are often far more complex than they first put forth. What does it mean when it says all dharmas are marked by emptiness and lists each of the sense faculties? In this lesson we find out.

Lesson 8

The Final Stanza of the Heart Sutra

In this Lesson Silas covers the final sections of the Heart Sutra leading up to itself explosive ending chant which in and of itself attempts to awaken you directly to the experience of the moment in this very now.

Lesson 9

What Now?

With the perspective given by taking a deep look into the Heart Sutra, what do you do now? How do you proceed and where do you go from here? In this final short and to the point lesson Silas will talk about all of this and more.

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Recent Reviews

Craig

February 7, 2026

A pleasure on the path ✨️✌🏻🙏🏻

Alexandra

August 5, 2025

Very good 🙏🏻❤️

Val

June 26, 2025

Beautiful. Ready to recite and chant ❤️. Thank you 🙏🏻!

Chad

March 17, 2025

Wonderful course but feel I have to listen again to get better understanding. Thank you Silas.

Chris

March 14, 2025

Great material and explanations.

Scott

March 12, 2025

Silas is among the best Buddhist teachers i have encountered in 36 years of study. Always insightful. Thank you.

Bryan

February 28, 2025

A good discussion on the Heart Sutra. It is a very difficult topic to follow at times but this has answered many questions and has opened my mind to studying more. 🙏

Donna

November 30, 2023

It’s a lot.

Matt

August 2, 2023

A truly enlightening insight. Thank you for sharing your experience. Namaste ✨️🙏💚

Dan

July 13, 2023

Interesting

Jay

February 26, 2023

♥️🪡🙏 This course is jam packed with emptiness ;) Thank you 😊

Colette

January 9, 2023

This was a very enlightening course. Very complex. I plan to listen to it again. Thank you.

Anne

January 6, 2023

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