(Note: This recording contains a static hum that, in spite of efforts to remove, does remain somewhat. But the content of the talk might be worth overlooking).

Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, understands how odd it must sound to some that an individual human being can become one with the universe.

She explains that this search for unity is often misguided because people look out there for something that can only be found in the immediate present.

This issue begins with our own internal division. The split between spirit and body, or matter and consciousness. If a person is divided within themselves, they cannot possibly perceive existence as a unified whole. Only an individual who has achieved internal integration can truly know that existence is indivisible.

This internal division is not innate but learned. An infant is bo ...