The cow represents your greed, needs, and appetites. The farmer represents your True Self—who you truly are beneath all these shells of personality, emotions, fear, and everything else that has been weighing you down. At first, we mistake sum of our needs, appetites, and greed. Basically, we are what we want, without any deeper considerations. At this level, we are like animals. We eat when we want, we sleep when we want, we urinate and excrete wherever we feel like it, and have sex when the desire comes over us. Just because we surround ourselves with modern conveniences and some social affectations doesn’t mean that we are spiritually any better than a dog or a cow. At this level, we are happy when our needs are fulfilled, and we are unhappy when they are not. At this level, we have no doubts, no questions about life itself. At this level, you have completely lost touch with your True Self. You are just like that calf running amok among the crops, creating paths of destruction without care or knowledge.
Then the farmer places a ring through your nose, a painful process but a necessary one to teach you where you need to go. He tugs you here and there with a ripe, teaching you the things that you can do and places that you can go and tapes you with a stick to gently keep you awake. As you go through this stage, you slowly realize that there are easier ways to get to where you want to be. More importantly, you are discovering how to get there.
[...] you have awakened to your soul, you will realize the true meaning of choice. Through awakening, Dr. Ilchi Lee says that we will truly be able to choose freely and to be master of our own lives. By being [...]