Meeting people where they are and speaking to them rather than at them with words they can relate to makes his delivery digestible and highly sought after. Connection is Lama Rod’s second language authenticity is his first. From these intersections, he creates a platform that’s very natural, engaging, and inclusive.Īpplauded for his mastery in balancing weighty topics with a sense of lightness while still speaking truth to power, this Queen has been featured by CNN, Good Morning America, BBC, The Washington Post, PBS, NPR, Ebony, and more. “It can be confusing for people to see Tantric Buddhist teachings coming from someone who’s Black and queer, southern, and fat, but I love it.
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Highly sought after for talks, retreats, and workshops, his mission is to show you how to heal and free yourself.Ī leading voice in a new generation of Buddhist teachers with over 11 years of experience, Lama Rod is highly respected among his peers and the communities that he serves. Author of Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger and co-author of Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love and Liberation, his teachings center on freedom, self-expression, and radical self-care. An international influencer with a Master of Divinity degree in Buddhist Studies from Harvard Divinity School with a focus on the intersection of social change, identity, and spiritual practice. Lama Rod Owens is a Black Buddhist Southern Queen. I, with the support of joy, gratitude, kindness, compassion, love, I hold the brokenheartedness.” - Lama Rod Owens The despair doesn’t hold me, the sorrow doesn’t hold me. In this book he offers personal insights, stories from others, as well as well as Buddhist teachings and meditations for tapping into anger's liberating potential.Lama Rod Owens joins David Nichtern to discuss rethinking the traditional approach to the Dharma on this episode of Creativity, Spirituality & Making a Buck: Ep. What is needed, says Owens, is a relationship to the heartbreak of anger that is embodied, nondestructive, and deeply healing for all. However, too many activist communities have an ill-informed, immature, and romanticized relationship to it. When recognized and handled with attention, love, and compassion, it can be a powerful mobilizing factor in our solidarity and commitment to enacting social change.
Anger serves as protectorate role as a bodyguard for our personal pain and suffering.
But when recognized and used mindfully, it can be a positive source of vitality, courage, and dedication as one travels the path of spiritual and social transformation. When denied or repressed, unconscious anger can have a negative impact with destructive repercussions.
For Owens, anger is the most important aspects of his personal identity as a Buddhist, social activist, African-American, and gay man. In this book, social activist and Kagyu lama Rod Owens offers a different understanding. In American culture at large, anger-particularly among men of color-is delegitimized, demonized, or "supposed to be" suppressed.
Reconsidering the power of anger as a positive and necessary tool for achieving spiritual liberation and social change.įor many Buddhists, anger is often thought of as a root cause for suffering and lasting, negative repercussions.
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