Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchOnce we understand we are not the masters of our thoughts—but victims—we can stop cooperating. Lola Mar 17, 1985
Season 2 Episode 64
Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, recounts tales of Master Fugai. Lola gives a detailed explanation of meditation. How the word meditation, historically, has been thought to mean thinking, pondering. But…
Published on 10 months, 2 weeks ago
The tale of the visitor who asked Zen master Bankei what miracles he could perform. Aug 6, 1989
Season 2 Episode 63
Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, discusses how we’re all waiting for the most extraordinary teacher. We want only the best. The tale of the visitor who asked Zen master Bankei what miracles he could per…
Published on 10 months, 3 weeks ago
Easter of 1985 - What Zen practitioners can learn from the story of Christ's Resurrection. Apr 7, 1985
Season 2 Episode 62
Zen Roshi and ordained Christian minister, Lola McDowell Lee, gives this talk during Easter of 1985. She explores the Resurrection of Christ. You can experience the Resurrection yourself. Your deathl…
Published on 11 months ago
Second in a series about using Transactional Analysis in Zen - the Child, Parent, Adult. Lola Oct 13, 1983
Season 2 Episode 61
Zen Roshi, Lola McDoweel Lee, explains how we all call ourselves an I, but there is only one—which everyone appropriates for themselves. Eventually our thoughts, voices, identifications eclipse the I…
Published on 11 months, 1 week ago
Learning to work with three elements of our identity: the parent, the child and the adult. Oct 6, 1983
Season 2 Episode 60
Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, explains three parts of our psychology working against each other --the parent, the child and the adult. The child’s impulses and emotions shouldn’t be in control. The p…
Published on 11 months, 2 weeks ago
Most of us are after power. Control in our situation. A wiseman seeks not. Instead, he cooperates. Nov 27, 1923
Season 2 Episode 59
Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, explains how most of us are after power—control, authority in our situation. A wise man seeks not. Instead, he cooperates, harmonizes with the situation. The tale of Fre…
Published on 11 months, 3 weeks ago
Life. Death. And Love. The most important thing for you is your life. Do you ever thoroughly investigate it? Nov 20, 1983
Season 2 Episode 58
Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, discusses Love, Life and Death. When you are filled with love, there is nothing missing. Can you love without a lover? Some people share their loneliness and call it lov…
Published on 11 months, 3 weeks ago
We can repeat the most profound teachings and remain stupid. What in us is orginal? May 1, 1983
Season 2 Episode 57
Understanding the noetic quality of mind, the hidden self, through meditation. That is just a matter of sitting, and being who you are. The difference between sailing on a paper boat and a real boat:…
Published on 1 year ago
Get beyond the effort of meditation and find real meditation. Jul 3, 1983
Season 2 Episode 56
Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, asks: When you are alone… are you really alone? We treat the ego as an absolute, when, in fact, it is a gap between you and totality. Ask yourself: Who am I? And you’ll …
Published on 1 year ago
What is the greatest miracle in the world? Oct 30, 1983
Season 2 Episode 54
Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, explores how it is In the other that we see what we think is us. When we are alone, many of us feel in strange company. It’s possible to see what one’s life is really ab…
Published on 1 year ago