Sentences with phrase «pulling ploughs»

Thus, alongside the lofty and otherworldly flights of Indian mysticism, stands the Zen emphasis upon «nothing special» and «everyday - mindedness» and «just being ordinary,» as in Yun - men's spiritual path described as «pulling a plough in the morning, and carrying a rake home in the evening,» or in Pao - fu's response to the question, «What is the language of the Buddha?»

We are working in rural areas to provide veterinary care for working animals, especially oxen, which are heavily depended upon by communities to pull ploughs and transport produce.

Previous times were when man learnt to control fire, domesticated animals to pull a plough and pump water, learnt to use wood and charcoal to smelt and later to drive engines, then coal, then oil and gas.

Not exact matches

Granted I work in book PRINTING I know many book publishers who have tried e-books and have found the returns not worth the effort, so are pulling out of doing them with their new books I know publishers who have lost serious money in e-books Mind you the fiction publishers seem to be ploughing on whilst seeing more people buying the printed edition and getting a highrer return.

Not everyone likes to plough through sense pulled off information to find out what they want.

Greater Maun is a vast area, where thousands of donkeys are used for arduous work like ploughing and pulling heavy carts.

Thus freed from the insuperable burden of plodding from library to library, refreshing his recollection upon index systems of various books, pulling them out and ploughing through them, and then making laborious niotes in longhand, the lawyer can devote his time and mind to the social, political, and economic aspects of law and justice.