Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAn early talk by Lola where she explains the metaphor of a boat crossing a river to reach the other side. Apr 20, 1975.
Season 1 Episode 21
This is an early talk by Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, where she describes an iron bar without a hole. And explains the metaphor about one’s spiritua…
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We can live in the valley—but be the peak. Lola explains how to live an awakened life. Apr 4, 1982
Season 1 Episode 20
Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, explains how, when the world seems tedious or boring—with repeating sameness—we need only remember that the flower we s…
2 years, 3 months ago
What is the power with which you look at yourself? Lola explores the meaning of religion and non-discrimination. Feb 2, 1985
Season 1 Episode 19
Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, explores how to understand the intuitive knowing with which you look into yourself. Non-discrimination and seeing throu…
2 years, 3 months ago
Lola asks: What gives the eye its sight, the ear its hearing? Mar 22, 1987
Season 1 Episode 18
Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, asks: Where is your consciousness? Our True Self is both Being and Becoming. Like a candle flame — unmoving, yet moving…
2 years, 4 months ago
Lola explains how the process of becoming awakened depends on two factors—the information you feed your mind—and your meditation. Sep 24, 1989
Season 1 Episode 17
Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, discusses spiritual hedonism, or spiritual pride, the seeking of pleasure in spiritual things, which is our egos pattin…
2 years, 4 months ago
Lola suggests we ask ourselves Agathon’s question: What in your life is the greatest good? She also explains that truth is not an idea but an encounter, an adventure. Mind is just a record of what has happened. Sep 10, 1989.
Season 1 Episode 16
Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, explains that’s it’s easy to forsake the world—much harder to become a true man of no rank. She describes of an Eastern…
2 years, 4 months ago
Lola mentions an early experience of awakening. And shares the tale of the Duke and the wheelwright. Feb 15, 1987
Season 1 Episode 15
Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, discusses the middle way. Also, have you ever read something that inspired you, but then you reread the same passage an…
2 years, 4 months ago
Lola explores the nature of consciousness and the relationship in our world of subject and object. Apr 26, 1987
Season 1 Episode 14
Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, ask the question: When you wake up in the morning, before you see or hear or feel things or have thoughts, what is it t…
2 years, 4 months ago
Lola shares the story of the old man, the young man, and the donkey. Habits and non-attachment. Nov 30, 1986
Season 1 Episode 13
Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, shares the story of the old man, the young man and the donkey. And explains how we become creatures of habit, then habi…
2 years, 5 months ago
Lola explores how we create many identities during our lives, all the time ignoring our true selves. Mar 29, 1987.
Season 1 Episode 12
Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, finds passages in the Upanishads to begin an exploration of how we spend our lives in becoming—becoming a child, becomi…
2 years, 5 months ago