The journey from that place where there is a certain anger and a certain rage to the place that you've just described, it feels like a brutally hard transition. It took me about 15 years to do that. And that was heavy labor on my part. That wasn't casual, indformal, you know, week end work. I only did that because there were people who came back and got me. The experience of being lost is, deeply fixated on the drama feels like wit,. But for me, i choose to wat whatever realization i experience, i choose to return back to places to help people come out of the same kind of suffering that i was able to come out of.
Lama Rod Owens is a Buddhist minister, author, activist, yoga instructor and authorized Lama, or 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 and is a co-author of Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love and Liberation, along with my friend and past GLP guest, Rev. angel Kyodo williams.
Lama Rod is the co-founder of Bhumisparsha, a Buddhist tantric practice and study community. Has been published in Buddhadharma, Lion’s Roar, Tricycle and The Harvard Divinity Bulletin, and offers talks, retreats and workshops in more than seven countries. He’s also someone who has spent a lifetime exploring and working with the often blurred lines between love and rage, which also happens to be the title of his latest book, Love & Rage: The Path to Liberation Through Anger (https://bookshop.org/a/22758/9781623174095). Its prophetic truth, timing and honesty and wisdom, in dealing with the multiplicity of challenges this generation is waking up to is both an invitation to a deeper set of truths and a set of practices to help navigate the experience of life in this moment in time.
You can find Lama Rod Owens at:
Website: https://www.lamarod.com/
Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/lamarodowens/
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