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Aspen Chapel

The 10 Oxherding Pictures

Oxherd Facebook Ten Bulls by Tokuriki Tomikich
This Classic Zen text is opened up over 10 sessions by Nicholas Vesey.

Nicholas CroppedNicholas is the Author of 2 books:
 “Developing Consciousness – A Roadmap of the Journey to Enlightenment” published by ‘O Books’ in 2011, and “Living the Life-Force” published by Ozark Mountain Publishing in 2019.
Nicholas has been committed to a path of personal transformation for 40 years; exploring the relationship between consciousness and spirituality through all the great wisdom traditions.
As a Christian Priest, he uses the Tao Te Ching, The Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita, The Dhammapada, and The Koran among many other sacred texts to help him on his path.
The 10 Oxherding pictures is a series short poems and drawings used in the Zen tradition to describe the stages of Enlightenment .

Click here for the pictures and their verses

Click below to watch for free:

1. Searching for the Ox - Searching for the meaning of Life  

2. Seeing the Traces-  Finding the Path

3. Seeing the Ox - Enlightenment!

4. Catching the Ox - A Love Story.

5. Herding the Ox - Keeping it Together

6. Coming home on the Ox's back - The Cosmic Pied Piper

7. The Ox Forgotten, leaving the Man alone - Two into One

8. The Ox and the Man both gone out of sight -Living from the edge

9. Returning to the origin, back to the source - Rocks are hard and water is wet

10. Entering the city with bliss-bestowing hands - The end point of the spiritual Journey

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Hello and welcome to our church. If you are a new visitor, we have a page for you to get to know us and learn more about planning a visit.
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Planning your Visit

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We are Nicholas and Heather Vesey
We lead the services here at the Aspen Chapel most Sundays.
Have a look around our site. There are plenty of fee courses to watch from our 'Wisdom from the Top of the World' page. Click here to go to it

If you are planning on a visit, here is some information as to what to expect:

When: We meet every Sunday at 9.30am for about an hour. If you cannot make it in person, you can live stream the event by clicking here.

Where: We are the chapel by the roundabout as you come into aspen. Specifically here.

What: We (Heather and Nicholas) come from a Christian Episcopal background, however our community draws from all the world’s wisdom traditions with the aim of learning together to live our lives more skillfully.

Every week we will focus on a topic within a theme.

GuernicaAt the moment we are looking at what the topic of 'Being at Peace'
How do we experience being at peace, and what is the connection to the nature of our 'being'.
When our 'being' is at peace, are we at peace?


We will have a musician who will set the mood for the event. That might be guitar, piano, or any other instrument. They will generally play 4 pieces throughout the service.

There will also be prayer and meditation, generally led by Heather, and Nicholas will give a talk on the topic for the day.

Finally, there is an opportunity for discussion and feedback as we pass the microphone around for everyone to join in.

Kids? We also offer childcare with younger children being looked after and given creative ways to look at a topic for the day.

Coffee and Yummies. After the service there is a food and drink reception for everyone to get to know each other a bit more.

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