The Supreme Doctrine - neo-alchemist

THE HORSEMAN AND THE HORSE
text entitled: 'The Ten stages of the Training of the Cow.' In that Zen affirms
the necessity of passing through the training; but it affirms also that the
ultimate aim is by no means a trained cow. 'Mounted on the cow, the man is
at last back at home. But behold here there is no longer a cow and with what
serenity he is sitting all by himself.' Then the man himself disappears also:
'Everything is void, the whip, the cord, the man and the cow; who has ever
contemplated the immensity of the sky? On the incandescent furnace not a
flake of snow can fall. When one has arrived there, manifest is the mind of
the old Master.'
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