Ten Bulls
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Ten Bulls or Ten Ox Herding Pictures is a series of short poems and accompanying drawings used in the Zen tradition to describe the stages of a practitioner's progress toward awakening, and their subs
15th century Japanese hanging scroll depicting a scene from the Oxherding sequence.
Seeing the ox, an Ox-herding picture on an outdoor wall in Bongeunsa, South Korea.
Bongeunsa oxherding picture depicting the state of transcendence, emptiness, and no-mind.
1. In Search of the Bull In the pasture of the world, I endlessly push aside the tall grasses in search of the Ox. Following unnamed rivers, lost upon the interpenetrating paths of distant mountains, My strength failing and my vitality exhausted, I cannot find the Ox.
Samatha-vipassanā
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Samatha, "calm," "serenity," "tranquility of awareness," and vipassanā, literally "special, super, seeing ", are two qualities of the mind developed in tandem in Buddhist practice.
Ten Bulls
…poems in thirty-one syllables) rendered in high Heian period Japanese calligraphic style. A similar series of meditative stages is depicted in the Nine Stages of Tranquility, used in the Mahamudra tradition, in which the mind is represented by an elephant and a monkey. This is based on the teachings of Asaṅga (4th CE), who…
Liao dynasty statue of the Eleven Headed Guanyin in Dule Temple in Tianjin, China.
Nine stages of meditation