This Is It: The Ox-Herding Pictures and Our Spiritual Journey
About this episode
Sensei Ryotan discusses the challenges of being present through the lens of the ox-herding pictures and psychological concepts.
In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, offered during Upaya’s Spring Practice Period, Sensei Ryotan explores a central theme of the ten ox-herding pictures: why is simply being present so difficult? Drawing on John Daido Loori’s Riding the Ox Home and the child psychologist D.W. Winnicott’s concept of “going on being,” Ryotan traces how conditioning — laid down in childhood and reinforced throughout… Source
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