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Words can’t teach how to practice. Like swimming, we must do it. Jul 22, 1984
Season 2 · Episode 80

Words can’t teach how to practice. Like swimming, we must do it. Jul 22, 1984

Talks by Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee · I & A Publishing

December 6, 202447m 45s

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Show Notes

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 wheel. Too much force and it weakens. Too little and it weakens. But how does he teach that? One has to do it. Like swimming. To learn it you need to do it. Zen practice is the same way.

Chuang Tzu, the master of the absurd’s mysterious tale of putting seven holes in Chaos, and then it disappeared.

The tale of the talking horse, who was the ghost of a long-dead master. Jul 22, 1984