Don’t run to—and don’t run away. Aug 7, 1988

Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, explains how nature wants balance. If conditions swing one way, they eventually swing the other way.Human nature is the same. If you strive in one direction about something, then the other direction eventually swings back at you.For example, those who strive to be 100% moral often succumb to immorality. We see this often.As is human nature, we swing in a swirl of thoughts and emotions, crossing the middle, or zero. That is the spot that is great to discover.In each of us there is the feminine and the masculine. Men need to find their feminine side, and women their masculine.We always want more light, less darkness. But we will never succeed at that. Life is both.Don’t run to, and don’t run away. Being free of the sway is equanimity.We all are interdependent — one one another. Because, in reality, we are one consciousness. One awareness.Lola reads passages from the Bhagavad Gita that illuminates this theme.Aug 7, 1988