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As a teenager, Tony Anthony discovered A Manual of Zen Buddhism by D.T. Suzuki and encountered the Ten Oxherder Pictures—a twelfth-century visual map of the Zen path to enlightenment. Though he never formally trained in Zen, those images left an indelible mark.
Ten Stages is a quiet reflection on those drawings, written decades later. The author’s commentaries are spare and personal, allowing the images and their meaning to speak for themselves. The book offers the same enduring comfort he once received: the reassurance that awareness has been walked before.