Emily Herds an Ox

EMILY HERDS AN OX " TO LIVE A LIFE OF MEANING IN GRACE " Is a narrative through the ten stages of Zen practice and enlightenment. E mily Herds an Ox is a contemporary novel that utilizes the framework of the "Ten Ox Herding Pictures" from Zen Buddhism. The Ten Ox-herding Pictures have concretely depicted the process in which the imperfect, limited, and relative self (the little child) awakens to the perfect, unlimited, and absolute essential self (the ox), grasps it, tames it, forgets it, and co