Episode notes
Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, explores the meaning of the opening of the Mystica Theoligica.
“Thou Trinity beyond Being, direct us to the heights of mystical revelation, sublime beyond all thought and light, wherein the simple, absolute and immutable mysteries of Divine Truth are hidden in the translucent darkness of that silence which revealeth in secret. For this darkness, though of deepest obscurity, is yet radiantly clear, and though beyond touch and sight, it overfills our unseeing mind with splendors of transcendent beauty. This is my prayer….”
Lola does a deep dive into the meaning of the reference to the translucent darkness, and what it means in terms of our Zen practice.
We start believing in the world of twos, of duality, soon after birth. The dichotomy of virtue and sin. Where there is one, there is the othe ...
Keywords
Mystica TheologicaSt. DionysiasTranslucent darkness