Further exploration of the Mystica Theoligica. Dec 11, 1988

Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, further explores the Mystica Theoligica.

NOTE: LOLA HAS A BAD COLD TODAY AND A PERSISTENT COUGH. If that bothers you, please skip. But the content of the talk is worth the discomfort, in my opinion.

Religious life is like a sculpture… best to take away from life that which is not Him rather than ascribe characteristics to Him.

Most of our thoughts and emotions are unconscious. And people think: Oh, how life without emotions and desire would be so colorless. But is that true?

Heraclitus preferred what he called “the dry soul.”

Gurdjieff once told Ouspensky that, for the most part, no one self-remembers. If you can do that, he said, you’re most of the way toward Being.

The ordinary want to be extraordinary. But the truly extraordinary appreciate the ordinary ...