that which you are

With “showing up,” Genju of 108zenbooks concludes her Oxherding series. We’d like to thank her again for allowing us to share in her journey.

Daido Roshi comments, in Path of Enlightenment:

Although the moment of realization is just that, a moment, the process of studying the self and clarifying the nature of reality doesn’t happen overnight. It doesn’t even end with the old sage. It continues endlessly. The spiritual practice of Zen is a ceaseless practice.

1. Searching for the Ox
2. Finding the Traces
3. Seeing the Ox
4. Catching the Ox
5. Taming the Ox
6. Riding the Ox Home
7. Forgetting the Ox
8. Transcending the Ox
9. Returning to the Source

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