The practitioner feels disorientated, searching for a 'truth' they think is lost.

Intellectual understanding or glimpses of truth appear; the practitioner realizes their true nature exists.

The seeker directly perceives the nature of reality (the bull).

The bull is spotted, but stubborn. The practitioner struggles to subdue their wild mind.

Through discipline, the mind becomes calmer and the ego no longer controls the practitioner.

The struggle ends. the practitioner moves in harmony with their true nature, rejoicing.

The practitioner realizes the bull (the concept of true nature) is just a mental construct. Only the self remains, serene.

In the state of 'Both, Bull and Self Transcended', all sense of separation dissolves into pure nothingness.

Observing nature and the world as they are, without subjective distortion.

The enlightened person returns to daily life (the marketplace) to help others with compassion.