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Lama Rod Owens on necessary change

How We Live Now with Katherine May

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Is Anger the Correct Emotion?

I think about this a lot on social media that actually we're kind of almost directly told that anger is the correct emotion. And if you're not enacting anger, then you're not engaged enough somehow. It often strikes me that that's actually quite a dangerous idea to put about because of the very toxic effect of anger on the body. We might learn an angry response from other people around us as well. I am disrupting whatever harm is happening, not because I want you or others to hurt. I want people to be free from suffering. And this is what I'm choosing to do to free people from suffering, including myself in this moment.

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