In an inspiring discuss on resiliency, Lama Rod Owens discusses remaining dedicated to liberation regardless of our struggles.
Lama Rod Owens covers the dharma of freedom, loving ourselves, ancestral work, and the facility of meditation on this BHNN Visitor Podcast episode.
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“My brokenheartedness doesn’t maintain me. The despair doesn’t maintain me, the sorrow doesn’t maintain me. I, with the assist of pleasure, gratitude, kindness, compassion, love, I maintain the brokenheartedness.” — Lama Rod Owens
About Lama Rod Owens:
Lama Rod Owens is a Black Buddhist Southern Queen. A global influencer with a Grasp of Divinity diploma in Buddhist Research from Harvard Divinity College with a concentrate on the intersection of social change, id, and religious observe. Writer of Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation by way of Anger and co-author of Radical Dharma: Speaking Race, Love and Liberation, his teachings middle on freedom, self-expression, and radical self-care. Extremely wanted for talks, retreats, and workshops, his mission is to indicate you how one can heal and free your self.
A number one voice in a brand new technology of Buddhist academics with over 11 years of expertise, Lama Rod is extremely revered amongst his friends and the communities that he serves. “It may be complicated for individuals to see Tantric Buddhist teachings coming from somebody who’s Black and queer, southern, and fats, however I find it irresistible. It’s who I’m,” he says. From these intersections, he creates a platform that’s very pure, participating, and inclusive.
Applauded for his mastery in balancing weighty subjects with a way of lightness whereas nonetheless talking reality to energy, this Queen has been featured by CNN, Good Morning America, BBC, The Washington Publish, PBS, NPR, Ebony, and extra. Connection is Lama Rod’s second language; authenticity is his first. Assembly individuals the place they’re and chatting with them moderately than at them with phrases they will relate to makes his supply digestible and extremely wanted.
Lama Rod co-founded Bhumisparsha in 2018, a religious group with a mission of creating tantra accessible and inclusive for North American practitioners whereas serving as a catalyst for transformative social change. He additionally co-founded Dharma Queens, a collection of conversations on Instagram Reside with sister sadada, to assist individuals get freer sooner. Prior engagements from the Buddhist minister, writer, activist, yoga teacher, and approved Lama within the Kagyu College of Tibetan Buddhism to incorporate talks, retreats, and workshops for organizations, companies, and universities, together with Calm, NYU, Yale, Harvard, Google, Columbia College, College of Vermont, Boston Faculty.
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