The Call of the Zen Bulls: 1) The Search for the Bull

“The whole search for the ox, for the bull, is the search to find your own life force, your own vitality, your own self, your chi, your power: your connection again with life, with existence.”-Vasant SwahaIn 2011 at a silent retreat in Dharma Mountain in Norway, Swaha read and commented on the Ten Bulls of Kakuan in Satsang. In the Sacred Silence, in the stillness of wintertime, the call to come back to ourselves grew more pronounced each day. We could hear it in the crackling of the wood sto...