{"id":389,"date":"2013-11-08T21:11:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T21:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/11\/zen-buddhism-the-10-ox-herding-pictures.html"},"modified":"2014-05-31T08:47:08","modified_gmt":"2014-05-31T13:47:08","slug":"zen-buddhism-the-10-ox-herding-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/11\/zen-buddhism-the-10-ox-herding-pictures.html","title":{"rendered":"Zen Buddhism: The 10 Ox Herding Pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x8aN9O73lgg?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"460\" height=\"257\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Studying Zen Buddhism? \u00a0Here\u2019s a clip in which Shinzen Young, an American meditation teacher, explains the 10 Ox Herding pictures. The story of the ox and the oxherd come from an old Taoist story and according to Columbia University \u201d the ox symbolizes the ultimate, undivided reality, the Buddha-nature, which is the ground of all existence.\u201d \u00a0The oxherd symbolizes the self. \u00a0Here is<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0PQonSiGkVE&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\"> Part 2 <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ozca_5ifwQ0&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Part 3<\/a> of Shinzen Young\u2019s video clips.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbia.edu\/cu\/weai\/exeas\/resources\/oxherding.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\">Columbia University has a great site<\/a> about the Ox Herding pictures with a great power point, which you can see below. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.buddhanet.net\/oxherd1.htm\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Buddanet also has a nice interactive sit<\/a>e for the pictures worth investigating.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"400\" height=\"300\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"https:\/\/app.box.com\/embed\/0w0041jy6nlkxi1.swf\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"opaque\"><embed width=\"400\" height=\"300\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"https:\/\/app.box.com\/embed\/0w0041jy6nlkxi1.swf\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" wmode=\"opaque\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Studying Zen Buddhism? \u00a0Here\u2019s a clip in which Shinzen Young, an American meditation teacher, explains the 10 Ox Herding pictures. 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