Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWe are divided between our senses and our thinking, our body and soul, matter and consciousness. Jun 14, 1981
Season 1 Episode 40
Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, discusses finding ways to integrate ourselves. Strengthening the tanden (Hara). How to work on the division between our senses and our thinking. Body and soul. Matter an…
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Zen practice is not an intellectual endeavor. The tale of the blind man and the lantern. Feb 17, 1985
Season 1 Episode 39
Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, explores the meaning of knowledge and ignorance in Buddhism and the Bible. The Tree Of Knowledge and the Tree Of Life. Zen practice is not an intellectual endeavor. The …
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When you look in the mirror, do you see you? When you are silent, it speaks. Your absence is its presence. Feb 10, 1985
Season 1 Episode 38
Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, discusses Chinese Master Yoka Daishi. We were all born with our true religion. It is essential in us. Not some borrowed doctrine. It’s not something outside which you …
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Understanding Lao Tsu’s Tao Te Ching and the Middle Way. Non-action, yet nothing remains undone. Sep 22, 1985
Season 1 Episode 37
Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, discusses Lao Tsu’s Tao Te Ching. Also, the tale of the master swordsman, the rat and the palace cat. If you look for an enemy, you will find one. If I give a gift and i…
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Do not sit in meditation waiting for enlightenment. Direct your attention to the mind. And, what is faith? Mar 2, 1986
Season 1 Episode 36
Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, discusses the beginning stanzas of the Diamond Sutra. What to do with our thoughts? Where is the mind? What is faith? Is there a wisdom that is the ground of mind? Where…
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Exploring the meaning of the Dhammapada. Listening to teachings as if you are an empty tape recorder. Sep 4, 1983
Season 1 Episode 35
Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, on listening to teachings as if you are an empty tape recorder—not judging, evaluating, or comparing. The Dhammapada, or stepping into the dharma. Also, our world is re…
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What is this life living you? It’s the same as that which sings in the birds. Jan 8, 1984
Season 1 Episode 34
Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, explains that when you breathe, it is not you doing the breathing. As you watch this breath, in time you’ll discover something remarkable about it. To begin work toward …
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A Christmas message for Zen practitioners about the birth of the light within. Dec 20, 1986
Season 1 Episode 33
Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, was also an ordained Christian minister. At the holiday she shared a message about Christ within each of us. How we live a dark, deep mystery, and within that darkness t…
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To witness the apparent in the real and the real in the apparent. One mind sees both worlds. Jan 26, 1986
Season 1 Episode 32
Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, explains that what we see with our senses—the world in which we live—is a world of effects. The causes are hidden. To witness the apparent in the real and the real in th…
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We try to both change and remain the same—the hook that many are on. Jun 7, 1981
Season 1 Episode 31
Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, suggests we resist trying to recreate an earlier experience in meditation. The sword loses its edge with constant feeling. Your earliest memories at 3 or 4 or 5… that wa…
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