The Way of the Herdsman

The Ten Bull herding pictures are a classic symbolic journey unique to the Zen school.

In this course, Martin Goodson examines the history and precursors of these pictures as well as giving a deep dive into each picture along with their accompanying verses.

The course expands to take in the archetype of the spiritual journey. This metaphor is not unique to the east or to the past but exists in Western literature, alchemy, and contemporary fiction and film. This is all explored as part of this course whilst focussing on this unique representation of this archetype from the Zen School.