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Trike Daily Array

Taming the Ox

By Tricycle

Taming the Ox by Genju

taming the Ox

Number 5 of Genju’s Oxherding pictures. Daido Roshi comments:

We are pretty clear about how our mind works… The whole practice is gradually beginning to come together and is less of a struggle. But there is still the nose-ring, the need for discipline to actualize what is realized.

1. Searching for the Ox
2. Finding the Traces
3. Seeing the Ox
4. Catching the Ox

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