

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 10, 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


Oxherding Pictures: Overview
The Oxherding Pictures tell a quintessentially Zen story of how we awaken to our own Buddha nature. They speak of seeking, struggle,...
Mar 13, 2025
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