SPP2026: The Ten Ox-herding Pictures – Our journey of Awakening: Opening Session
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This episode marks the opening session of Upaya’s Spring Practice Period, focusing on the ten ox-herding pictures as a metaphor for the journey of awakening.
In this opening session of Upaya’s Spring Practice Period, Senseis Ryotan, Monshin, and Shinzan, and Hoshi Senko welcome residents, guests, and the Cloud Sangha into a month of shared practice. Drawing on the 12th-century ox-herding series and John Daido Loori’s Riding the Ox Home as the program’s central text, the teachers frame the ten pictures not as a linear progression but as a spiral… Source
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