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Forgetting the Ox

By Tricycle

dissolving the Ox

Part 7 of 108zenbooks‘ beautiful and haunting Oxherding pictures (and poems.) Daido Roshi:

The struggle has ended. A sense of peacefulness and relaxation pervades. The world is illuminated and feeling of bliss permeates it.

The ox is gone, but the person remains.

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

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