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Title
Taming the Ox
Artist
Ed Meredith
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Sculpture
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When a thought moves, another follows, and then another-an endless train of thoughts is thus awakened. Through enlightenment all this turns into truth; but falsehood asserts itself when confusion prevails. Things oppress us not because of an objective world, but because of a self-deceiving mind. Do not let the nose-string loose, hold it tight, and allow no vacillation.
Number five of the ten ox-herding pictures and commentaries depict the stages of practice leading to the enlightenment at which Zen (Chan) Buddhism aims. ... The ox symbolizes the ultimate, undivided reality, the Buddha-nature, which is the ground of all existence.
The boy is not to separate himself with his whip and tether,
Lest the animal should wander away into a world of defilements;
When the ox is properly tended to, he will grow pure and docile;
Without a chain, nothing binding, he will by himself follow the oxherd.
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