英文摘要 |
This study explored Zen master Puming’s Ox Herding Pictures and Verses from the perspective of habitual domain theory. Master Puming’s Ox Herding Pictures and Verses demonstrate the process of life transcendence and transformation through 10 illustrations (i.e., untamed ox, preliminary taming, restrained ox, retrospection, tamed ox, unhindered ox, harmony, loss of the sense of existence, solitude, and the loss of distinction) accompanied by 10 poems. Through the use of pictures, this paper illustrates the progressive process of life transformation in five stages known as ignorance, confrontation, transformation, harmony, and return to innocence. At each stage, the Zen practitioner achieves transcendence in the current habitual domain and renews his life by deconstructing and transforming inertia, with the transformation occurring at the consciousness level. Every chance of transcendence broadens a person’s horizons, turning the life into a more flexible, open, and enjoyable state of being.
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