![IMAGE: 10. Return to Society. [Entering the Marketplace.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Oxherding_pictures_No._10_edit312.jpg)
10. Return to Society. [Entering the Marketplace.] - Kuòān Shīyuǎn [Kaku-an] (Late 12th century): Ten Bulls [Ten Ox Herding Pictures]
/ (Bull [Ox] = True self; Bull [Ox] herder = Self seeking true self)
/ (9. Reaching the… ← Previous figure; List of Ten Bulls)
(Image by Tenshō Shūbun from Ten Bulls or Ten Ox Herding Pictures)
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![IMAGE: When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us [the one which has opened for us].](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/doors-20172_640_alexander-graham-bell-402095_640-100x75.jpg)