The human heart is an ocean, with myriad thoughts swimming like fish within.
The five senses are windows to the heart-sea, and what they see and hear is what they feel.
When you see something, hear a sound, or catch a scent, fish in the heart-sea leap and splash, creating thousands of ripples!
Only the strongest fish can leap out of the heart-sea and enter the main consciousness, where they are captured by ordinary people.
From this arises happiness, anger, sorrow, fear, love, hate, and desire... the seven emotions and six desires.
The heart-sea is not calm; even in states of ignorance and insensitivity, undercurrents and rapids exist, and the river of stars competes. In that water, "fish" are born and die endlessly, proliferating continuously.
