Episode 5 – A Cup of Tea

Dining with Druids

http://alisonleighlilly.com/podcast/DwD_ep5.mp3

Welcome to Episode 5 of Dining with Druids! We’re your hosts, Ali and Jeff Lilly.

In tonight’s episode, “A Cup of Tea,” Ali and Jeff tread some murky waters, exploring topics of horror, disgust, Buddhism, beauty, fundamentalism, nationalism and spiritual warfare. Things get sticky, Ali confuses the Arctic with Antarctica, and Jeff continues to be sensible and soft-spoken (so turn your iPods up to eleven!). The key phrase to remember for this episode, and where the title of this post comes from, is the Buddhist proverb:

“Drinking a cup of tea, I stop the war.”

Mentioned in tonight’s episode:

• Standing Stone and Garden Gate: A Podshow for Thinking Pagans and Working Witches — check it out!
• “Disgust, horror, and Western Buddhism,” by David Chapman
• Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams and “The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner” by Samuel T. Coleridge
• Religious diversity, Columbia and the Pagan response to the DC40 prayer campaign
• The separation of church and state
• Brighid, goddess of justice

Ali also wrote a follow-up/prequel essay, “I am a Conscientious Objector in the Spiritual War” that listeners might be interested in checking out.

As always, thanks for listening, and join us next time!