One Source - 10 Ox Herding - Part 8


One Source - 10 Ox Herding - Part 8
Artist: Jonas Claesson
Title: One Source - 10 Ox Herding - Part 8
Type: Matted Giclée Print
Size: 8.5 × 8.5” Print in 12×12” Mat
Jonas Claesson, in a collaboration with Shinji Asai and Junichi Asai.
It is a surfer's search of the true nature of the mind, based on the story from "Ten Ox Herding".
Ten Bulls or Ten Ox Herding is a series of short poems and accompanying drawings used in the Zen tradition to describe the stages of a practitioner's progress toward enlightenment and her or his return to society to enact wisdom and compassion.
“When in the deepest state of meditation, you realise that all things are born from the state of pure energy. This energy creates physical matter, before taking the shape of billions of different forms. Each of these forms will exist for a while, before returning back to pure energy. And so the cycle is completed.”