SPP2026: Zazenkai: Searching For The Ox
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Sensei Ryotan discusses the first two ox-herding images as metaphors for understanding the beginning and sustenance of practice.
In this Zazenkai day dharma talk during the Spring Practice Period, Sensei Ryotan takes up the first two ox-herding images — Searching for the Ox and Finding Traces of the Ox, presenting these images as metaphors for understanding how practice begins and what sustains it. She frames the ox-herding series around a central insight: practice is not about “getting free of the world,” but about “being… Source
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