Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLearning 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…
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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…
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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…
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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:…
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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 …
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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…
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The Taoist sage, Lieh Tzu, was once asked: Why do you value emptiness? Jun 12, 1983
Season 2 Episode 55
Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, explains how existence is reported to us as separate objects. But there is a unity to life that runs through everything—called the Tao. The Taoist sage, Lieh Tzu, was on…
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago
By the merit of a single sitting, they destroy innumerable sins. (Hakuin) Jun 5, 1983
Season 2 Episode 53
Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, recounts the tale of a teacher’s interaction with his student, Hakuin, who became the founder of Rinzai. From Hakuin’s “Song Of Meditation” we hear: “All beings are from…
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago
There are plenty of Buddha statues sitting still. But have you ever seen a Zen master sitting still? Mind vs action. May 29, 1983
Season 2 Episode 52
Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, asks: What are you searching for? Do you know it is your ego that is doing the searching? You see plenty of Buddha statues sitting still. But have you ever seen a Zen ma…
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago
The tale of the thief who robs Shichiri Kojun who was busy reciting sutras. Don’t fight the darkness—light a candle. May 22, 1983
Season 2 Episode 51
Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, discusses judging others, the interdependence of the universe. Indra’s net — the mirror mind, and how every one of us reflects everything else. How we shouldn't fight th…
Published on 1 year, 7 months ago