Ten Bulls

The Ten Bulls (also known as the Ten Ox-Herding Pictures) is one of the most celebrated teaching sequences in Zen Buddhism: ten short verses, traditionally paired with images, that trace a seeker's search for an ox representing the true, awakened mind. From the first stanza, "e;Searching for the Ox,"e; through the wandering, the glimpse, the taming, and finally the return to the marketplace with h...