

Oxherding Picture 6: Riding the Ox Home
What does it mean to ride the ox, to lose the distance between you and practice, you and life? The boundaries become clear but there is...
Apr 16, 2025


Oxherding Picture 5: Training. Trusting. Patient.
In this very moment, how am I being asked to grow? To be wholehearted in Zen practice means to give up any expectation of reward. To be...
Apr 9, 2025


Oxherding Picture 4: The Ox is Right Here
Taming the mercurial ox means taking up a discipline that anchors rather than controls. Without a spiritual discipline, our life easily...
Apr 3, 2025


Oxherding Picture 3: Seeing the Ox
Openings take us by surprise: "Oh wait! What was that?" Seeing the world as alive, radiant and aware is not something to be engineered...
Mar 27, 2025


Oxherding Pictures 1 & 2: Searching and Finding Traces
The first two pictures invite us to leave the familiar and enter the unknown. Like the little boy, we seem to be empty handed . Yet with...
Mar 20, 2025
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