The Tao of Ordinary Being. Delivered August 24, 1986

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

Opublikowano: 2026-08-07

The Taoist approach to existence is much different from our usual rigid, goal-oriented conditioning. Lin-Li, a man nearly a hundred years old, lives in profound simplicity. To many, his life seems marked by poverty, loneliness, and the absence of family, a life of failure. Yet to others’ surprise, Lin-Li maintains an inexplicable happiness. He sings while laboring for meager grains in the fields. Lin-Li highlights a critical divide between the Confucian quest for status, behavioral perfection, and learning, and the Taoist path, which champions unlearning. Human misery is largely rooted in our desperate, eg...