Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWords can’t teach how to practice. Like swimming, we must do it. Jul 22, 1984
Season 2 Episode 80
Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, discusses how words can’t teach how to practice or how to wake up. Just like the wheelwright can’t teach how to make a …
1 year, 2 months ago
Lola recounts the surprising tale of the Sufi mystic who is captured and taken to the slave market by his captors. July 15, 1984
Season 2 Episode 79
Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, explains how if we are ruled from without, we are slaves. If we are ruled from within, we are still enslaved.
Short revi…
1 year, 3 months ago
The Paramitas - 1. Giving 2. Observing precepts 3. Patience 4. Diligence 5. Meditation. 6. Wisdom. July 8, 1984
Season 2 Episode 78
Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, suggests you look at your life as a story. Is there anything you would change? Though this life is not perfect, you’re …
1 year, 3 months ago
Pranyaparamita, or “the perfection of transcendental wisdom.” July 1, 1984
Season 2 Episode 77
Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, explores the possible meanings of several Buddhist and Christian concepts:
• Pranyaparamita, or “the perfection of trans…
1 year, 4 months ago
The similarities between Hassidic Judaism and Buddhism. May 19, 1985
Season 2 Episode 76
Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, discusses the similarities between Hasidic Judaism and Buddhism.
Many religions are more emotional. Zen practitioners ar…
1 year, 4 months ago
Make the smallest distinction and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart. May 12, 1985
Season 2 Episode 75
Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, explores the notion of preferences. As the Third Chinese Patriarch of Zen put it: when love and hate are both absent, e…
1 year, 5 months ago
A monk asked his teacher, "I am pecking from inside the shell. I beg you, Master, please peck from outside." May 5, 1985
Season 2 Episode 74
Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, explains that when most of us listen to a teacher talk, what we hear is determined by our conditioning. When one talks …
1 year, 5 months ago
First is learning, called hearing. Then approaching. Then transcending. Lola Apr 14, 1985
Season 2 Episode 73
During this talk, Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, has a bad cough, which she lightheartedly uses in her discussion about how to hear and how to listen.…
1 year, 5 months ago
As illusions drop, as attitudes drop, how relaxing it is to be at ease with yourself. Mar 31, 1985
Season 2 Episode 72
You are born into pleasure and pain, and eventually emotions develop. Then centuries of conditioning. From your parents, from your culture. How many …
1 year, 5 months ago
The depth in saying “I don’t know.” Mystica Theologica. Lola Jul 22, 1985
Season 2 Episode 71
Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, discusses Mystica Theologica by St Dionysias. He said religious experience can’t be described. Like music: as much as y…
1 year, 6 months ago