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Oxherding Picture 6: Riding the Ox Home

  • Apr 17, 2025
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Updated: Apr 18, 2025

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 no gap—something becomes deeply intimate, familiar and trustworthy. Our conventional views and ideas of the world, self and others, is partial at best. But prajna, the intuitive response to the moment, unmediated by ego, is always complete.



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