"Suppose there was a black ox and a white ox yoked by a single harness or yoke. Would it be right to say that the black ox is the yoke of the white ox, or the white ox is the yoke of the black ox?"
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slightly random association, but I'm reminded that "yoke" and "yoga" share a same etymological meaning: "to unite"
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Indeed, the union of samatha and vipassanā (samathavipassanaṃ *yuga*naddhaṃ) is Buddhist yoga. Whereas the Koṭṭhika Sutta's oxen are sense organ and sense object, whose fetter (saṃ*yoja*naṃ) is desire and greed (chandarāgo)... 1/2
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