Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, interprets passages of Chuang Tzu, the great Taoist master. The greatest man is nobody. The man of Tao does not cultivate his manner. Nor does he try not to. Our mind moves in one direction—then swings the opposite way. The most difficult thing to do is to keep the mind in the middle. Non-discrimination. Even from waking state to sleeping state, we cross the middle. If there is no motion, then time disappears. Eternity is here and now, not some endless amount of time. Lola shares the tale of Omar and his stopped clock. She explains different types of meditation practice and asks, what happen when you stop thinking? Lola shares the story of the centipede who is convinced by a fox to start thinking. Also, the tale of the hard-working priest, always busy with his duties and charity work. Then he dies. And upon dying, a servant arrives to answer his every need. But then the priest gets bored and restless. What happens next is startling. Sep 16, 1984
