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Back to SearchHow do we cross an icy stream? Exploring the Tao Te Ching, Chapter 15. May 28, 1988
Season 2 Episode 96
Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, continues her exploration of the Tao Te Ching. Today, Chapter 15:
The ancient masters were subtle, mysterious, prof…
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A detailed exploration of Chapter 14 of Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching, “Praising The Mysterious.” May 8, 1988
Season 2 Episode 95
Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, provides a detailed exploration of Chapter 14 of Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching, “Praising The Mysterious.” In it Lao Tzu calls…
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Lao Tzu on two fundamental types of meditation. May 1, 1988
Season 2 Episode 94
Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, gives a detailed explanation of Lao Tzu’s notion that there are two basic types of meditation one should practice. One …
1 year, 5 months ago
More Bible parables that can help you practice Zen. Dec 12, 1984
Season 2 Episode 93
Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, who is also an ordained Christian minister, continues her exploration of Christian parables and how they might apply fo…
1 year, 5 months ago
Bible parables that can help you practice Zen. Dec 9, 1984
Season 2 Episode 92
Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, who is also an ordained Christian minister, discusses parables from the Bible and how they can help Zen practitioners.
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1 year, 5 months ago
Zen is not a belief system. Zen disturbs the dreaming mind. Nov 12, 1984
Season 2 Episode 91
Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, explains that enlightenment is not a goal. “A goal is like the horizon. You can never reach it.”
The immediate is the ul…
1 year, 6 months ago
When you learn to accept that you are alone, truly alone, it builds a great strength. Nov 5 1984
Season 2 Episode 90
Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, explains that when you sit properly in meditation, your world is gone. You are alone. Absolutely alone. And when you le…
1 year, 6 months ago
Who are you really? Your name is not you. Your photo is not you. Who are you? Oct 28, 1984
Season 2 Episode 89
Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, asks how someone like Hitler could come to power. He was loud, and brash, and gave a secure feeling of strength to thos…
1 year, 6 months ago
We are looking for nothing. Which doesn’t give you much to look for, does it? Oct 21, 1984
Season 2 Episode 88
Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, reads from renowned Zen teacher, Ikkyu: “If it rain, let it rain; If it rain not, let it not rain; But even should it n…
1 year, 6 months ago
Lao Tzu: Existence renders actual. Non-existence renders useful. Oct 7, 1984
Season 2 Episode 87
Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, relates the tale of the monk who questions Chuang Tzu. He begins:
Monk: "Much of what you talk about is that which is no…
1 year, 7 months ago