The 10 Oxherding Pictures

Oxherd Facebook Ten Bulls by Tokuriki Tomikich
This Classic Zen text is opened up over 10 sessions by Nicholas Vesey.

Nicholas Cropped Nicholas is the Author of 2 books:
“Developing Consciousness – A Roadmap of the Journey to Enlightenment” published by ‘O Books’ in 2011, and “Living the Life-Force” published by Ozark Mountain Publishing in 2019.
Nicholas has been committed to a path of personal transformation for 40 years; exploring the relationship between consciousness and spirituality through all the great wisdom traditions.
As a Christian Priest, he uses the Tao Te Ching, The Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita, The Dhammapada, and The Koran among many other sacred texts to help him on his path.
The 10 Oxherding pictures is a series short poems and drawings used in the Zen tradition to describe the stages of Enlightenment .

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1. Searching for the Ox - Searching for the meaning of Life

2. Seeing the Traces- Finding the Path

3. Seeing the Ox - Enlightenment!

4. Catching the Ox - A Love Story.

5. Herding the Ox - Keeping it Together

6. Coming home on the Ox's back - The Cosmic Pied Piper

7. The Ox Forgotten, leaving the Man alone - Two into One

8. The Ox and the Man both gone out of sight -Living from the edge

9. Returning to the origin, back to the source - Rocks are hard and water is wet

10. Entering the city with bliss-bestowing hands - The end point of the spiritual Journey

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