![]() ![]() We 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. It is a necessary text for these times.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. The result is a book that serves as both a balm and a blueprint for those seeking justice who can feel overwhelmed with anger-and yet who refuse to relent. Love and Rage weaves the inimitable wisdom and lived experience of Lama Rod Owens with Buddhist philosophy, practical meditation exercises, mindfulness, tantra, pranayama, ancestor practices, energy work, and classical yoga. Instead, it is one that offers a potent vision of anger that acknowledges and honors its power as a vehicle for radical social change and enduring spiritual transformation. ![]() This is not a book about bypassing anger to focus on happiness, or a road map for using spirituality to transform the nature of rage into something else. In Love and Rage, Lama Rod Owens, coauthor of Radical Dharma, shows how this unmetabolized anger-and the grief, hurt, and transhistorical trauma beneath it-needs to be explored, respected, and fully embodied to heal from heartbreak and walk the path of liberation. White supremacy in the United States has long necessitated that Black rage be suppressed, repressed, or denied, often as a means of survival, a literal matter of life and death. In the face of systemic racism and state-sanctioned violence, how can we metabolize our anger into a force for liberation? ![]()
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