This Is It: The Ox-Herding Pictures and Our Spiritual Journey

In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, offered during Upaya’s Spring Practice Period, Sensei Ryotan explores a central theme of the ten ox-herding pictures: why is simply being present so difficult? Drawing on John Daido Loori’s Riding the Ox Home and the child psychologist D.W. Winnicott’s concept of “going on being,” Ryotan traces how conditioning — laid down in childhood and reinforced throughout… Source

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This Is It: The Ox-Herding Pictures and Our Spiritual Journey is an episode from Upaya Zen Center by Joan Halifax | Zen Buddhist Teacher Upaya Abbot.

This episode is 46:09 long.

This episode was published on Apr 20, 2026.

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