Heart Sutra（ 心经）受想行识

One day, I was flipping through TV channels and coincidentally I switched to a TVB channel which was showing 通天干探(The Ultimate Crime Fighter), a Hong Kong TVB police drama starred by Moses Chen. In the scene, the cop with supernatural ability was sharing the Heart Sutra ( 心经）to the character played by Moses Chen who abused his authority as a policeman as he seek revenge. From the scene, I began to understand the verse 受想行识. Although its only 4 words, it has very deep meaning. 受想行识 means your action is determined by your thoughts. The reason why the policeman became evil was because he thought the world was unfair, and everyone was not helping him. 

He became disillusioned and decided to commit crime since he thought there was no justice and he decided to take revenge. In the end, he committed the crime as his mind was filled with anger and revenge and he felt everyone was against him. Now I understand why Buddha stated Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts. “All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts and made up of our thoughts. If a man speak or act with an evil thought, suffering follows him as the wheel follows the hoof of the beast that draws the wagon.... If a man speak or act with a good thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him.” ― Gautama Buddha 

观自在菩萨，行深般若波罗蜜多时。照见五蕴皆空，渡一切苦厄。舍利子，色不异空，空不异色，色即是空，空即是色，受想行识，亦复如是。舍利子，是诸法空相，不生不灭，不垢不净，不增不减。是故空中无色，无受想行识，无眼耳鼻舌身意，无色声香味触法，无眼界，乃至无意识界。无无明，亦无无明尽，乃至无老死，亦无老死尽。无苦集灭道，无智亦无得。以无所得故，菩提萨埵，依般若波罗蜜多故，心无罣礙，无罣礙故，无有恐怖，远离顚倒梦想，究竟涅槃。三世诸佛，依般若波罗蜜多故，得阿耨多罗三藐三菩提。故知般若波罗蜜多，是大神呪，是大明呪，是无上呪，是无等等呪，能除一切苦，眞实不虚。故说般若波罗蜜多呪，卽说呪曰：揭谛揭谛，波罗揭谛，波罗僧揭谛，菩提萨婆诃。