About this episode

The episode discusses the final stage of the Ten Ox-Herding Pictures, focusing on the theme of returning to ordinary life.

In this final talk of the Spring Practice Period Sesshin, Sensei Ryotan and Sensei Shinzan bring the Ten Ox-Herding Pictures to their close with the tenth stage — Entering the Marketplace — the return to ordinary life, barefoot and unadorned, carrying what was glimpsed back into the world. Ryotan traces the inner movement this stage points to: the small self receding as the larger self comes… Source

People in this episode

Host: Joan Halifax

Guests: Sensei Ryotan, Sensei Shinzan

Topics covered

• Zen Buddhism
• spiritual practice
• ordinary life
• self
• Ten Ox-Herding Pictures

Keywords

• Sesshin
• Ten Ox-Herding Pictures
• spirituality
• self
• Zen

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