Higher Perspective - 10 Ox Herding - Part 9


Higher Perspective - 10 Ox Herding - Part 9
Artist: Jonas Claesson
Title: Higher Perspective - 10 Ox Herding - Part 9
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.
“The world is the same as it was before you embarked on the journey. Flowers are still as colourful, the ocean remains blue, and waves continue to break beautifully. The reality is that it was there all along, only now you can see it so perfectly. You have become a part of what you see before you.”