The Ten Bulls - A Zen poem on the path to self-awareness.

The ‘Ten Bulls of Zen’ is a metaphoric depiction of stages of self-realization, involving an ox-herder (representing the seeker or the separate self) and an ox or bull (representing our true, primordial nature, or the Ground of existence). It remains one of the best models for describing the awakening process. It unfolds in ten stages that define the relationship of our mind to the deepest truth of reality. Initially this deepest truth, symbolized by the bull, appears separate from the seeker, but eventually it 'disappears' (or is forgotten) representing the realization that the separate self (the seeker) has never truly been separate from what it seeks.

Source: http://www.ptmistlberger.com/the-ten-bulls-of-zen.php

Read by Sonny Brown

Music: Eyvind Kang - Consensit Spiritus from Theater of Mineral NADEs

A short series of Zen poems that illustrates a practitioners progression towards enlightenment.

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