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The Ox herding teaching is presented as a series of pictures which are an ancient Zen metaphor of spiritual maturation.
In Mahayana Buddhism, Buddha Nature is the innate awakened state that
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The Ox herding teaching is presented as a series of pictures which are an ancient Zen metaphor of spiritual maturation.
In Mahayana Buddhism, Buddha Nature is the innate awakened state that we all possess but most have yet to discover. The Ox herding teachings offer an engaging path to track it.
We begin our search for the ox in the tangled undergrowth of an unruly mind. At the beginning of our journey we get lost again and again on seemingly endless paths, but with determination and persistence we start to recognise traces of the ox. As we follow traces of the ox’s footprints along the riverbank and mountain tracks, the ox is still nowhere to be seen. Then … a first glimpse of the ox’s tail as the ox disappears far into the distance and still out of reach, but we are encouraged by the sighting of the tail so we push on. Why face the bull? What truly moves us toward such a challenging practice?
