TEN ZEN OXEN /A Way-Showing Path of Enlightenment / Psychospiritual Commentaries

Raymond Bart Vespe

ISBN 13: 978-1-58790-675-6 / 282 pages / paperback / 6” x 9” / $19.95

Enlightenment / Spirituality

ABOUT THE BOOK

The Ten Ox-Herding Pictures have been used for over one-thousand years as a teaching paradigm for individuals on a spiritual path of awakening and liberation from ego-self’s conditioned dualities, separations, ignorance, attachments and errors and of realizing  original, inborn and enlightened True Nature.

The ten pictures are Way-stations of the path of becoming enlightened True Nature. The Ox-herder symbolizes our limited ego-self and the Ox, our sought after True Nature.

Presented are a brief history of Buddhism and Zen/Ch’an Buddhism, original Ox-herding pictures, text renditions, synoptic comments and psychospiritual commentaries.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ray Vespe, M.S., Ph.D. is a former Associate Professor of Integral Counseling Psychology and a retired licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. He has experienced teachers and teachings in the spiritual traditions of Hinduism; Vedanta; Yoga; Tantra; Kashmir Shaivism; Sufism; Theravada, Mahayana, Vajrayana, Ekayana, Ch’an and Zen Buddhism and Taoism. The latter two involved meetings with Alan Watts, T’ai-Chi practice with Al Chung-liang Huang and Gia-fu Feng, study with Bishop Nippo Syaku and meditation with Shunryu Suzuki Roshi. Ray has authored four books integrating Chinese Taoist wisdom, psychotherapeutic practice, soul-journeying and spiritual development.