7/2/2023 0 Comments Lama rod owens love and rageWe aim to be a gathering place for ideas and solutions ensuring that the growing body of work that we steward remains accessible to the public. Love & Rage: The Path of Liberation Through Anger ♫ Music by Rupa & the April Fishes, Bonnie "Prince" Billy and Nathan Salsburg, and Bird By Snow Through this ever-inspiring conversation, we explore embodiment, whiteness and violence, the crumbling of old narratives and patriarchal structures, and how we can find aids in spiritual and religious practices. Rather than running away from the unknown or the uncomfortable, Lama Rod reminds us that it is only through experiencing hardship that we develop a sort of emotional buoyancy and resiliency to the ongoing suffering of life and the totality of our experiences. In recognizing these moments of great turning - our work is to tend to our grief and massage our trauma, as tumultuous as it may be. Lama Rod’s next book project will explore transformative anger and rage and is due out June 2020.Īlongside our exploration of anger and rage, Lama Rod supports us in navigating the changing of worlds we are experiencing. Lama Rod facilitates undoing patriarchy workshops for male-identified practitioners in Brooklyn and Boston. Owens is the co-founder of Bhumisparsha, a Buddhist tantric practice and study community and has been published and featured in several publications including Buddhadharma, Lion’s Roar, Tricycle, The Harvard Divinity Bulletin and has offered talks, retreats, and workshops in over 7 countries. He holds a Master of Divinity degree in Buddhist Studies from Harvard Divinity School and is a co-author of Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation. He is the author of "Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation Through Anger" and co-author of "Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation.Lama Rod Owens is an author, activist, and authorized Lama (Buddhist Teacher) in the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism and is considered one of the leaders of his generation of Buddhist teachers. He holds a Master of Divinity degree in Buddhist studies from Harvard Divinity School, where he focused on the intersection between social change, identity, and spiritual practice. He co-founded Bhumisparsha, a Buddhist tantric practice and study community. Lama Rod Owens is an author, activist, and authorized lama (Buddhist teacher) of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. How can such a practice – in short: embodiment - help us give space to difficult feelings within us and fully accept and love ourselves? What is a viable way to deal with conflict or structural social injustices to initiate positive change? How can we practice embodied, holistically, and sustainably, without burning out, for the benefit and liberation of all beings? He explains how we can practice being intimately connected to all the pleasant and unpleasant facets of ourselves through an embodied, holistic practice rooted in Buddhism. In his book, "Love and Rage," Lama Rod Owens describes how people who practice Buddhism sometimes devalue strong emotions such as anger, grief, and transgenerational trauma in themselves or in others, particularly the experiences of marginalized and structurally disadvantaged people.
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