"Everything flows from your heart."
-Fa-yen
Today's quote is a simple one. I enjoy this passage because it reminds me to get out of my head, a place where I spend too much time. Often I will dwell on aspects of life that upset or disappoint me. I can get stuck inside my head; replaying scenes of failure, contemplating different outcomes, fantasizing about disaster. This is not good. This type of thinking ultimately brings on frustration, anger, and sadness. And these emotions do not bring upon progress or any rational solution. I do not mean to say that anger and sadness are not natural feelings, it is inevitable that these emotions will arise throughout life. However, I believe that emotions do "flow from your heart". The good and the bad. And to be cognizant of this will aide in focusing one's energy into its proper designation.
After doing some quick research, I found information on Fa-yen to be fairly limited (i.e. there is not a Wikipedia page). However, I did discover that Fa-yen lived during the eighth century AD and was a founder of one of the Five Houses of Chan Buddhism that arose during the Tang Dynasty.
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