The benefit of hearing one time
This teaching on interdependent origination
Is inconceivable, it is said in sutras.
Therefore, I think we are very fortunate.

The root of delusions is confusion, likewise
The root of phenomena is interdependence, Buddha taught.
Hearing this and contemplating it,
Joy in my heart expands by leaps and bounds.

Interdependence, the greatest of reasonings,
Settles the nature of all to be known.
All phenomena appear as empty, yet
Appearance and emptiness are an equality, not contradictory.

In this life and all my lives, I pray
I may understand this king of reasoning
and follow its unerring path
to the realization of emptiness.

Excerpt of the Final Prayer in a text written by Khenpo Karten Rinpoche “Essence of the Heart Sutra in Brief.”  
We are reading this commentary during the 2026 retreat.
Image is Vulture Peak in Rajgir, India.