SPP2026: The Ten Ox-herding Pictures – Our journey of Awakening: Opening Session

In this opening session of Upaya’s Spring Practice Period, Senseis Ryotan, Monshin, and Shinzan, and Hoshi Senko welcome residents, guests, and the Cloud Sangha into a month of shared practice. Drawing on the 12th-century ox-herding series and John Daido Loori’s Riding the Ox Home as the program’s central text, the teachers frame the ten pictures not as a linear progression but as a spiral… Source

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SPP2026: The Ten Ox-herding Pictures – Our journey of Awakening: Opening Session is an episode from Upaya Zen Center by Joan Halifax | Zen Buddhist Teacher Upaya Abbot.

This episode is 1:05:04 long.

This episode was published on Apr 26, 2026.

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