Episode 10: When the World Is Burning: Spiritual Practice, Grief, and Liberation with lama rod owens
How do we stay grounded in spirituality and liberation during times of collective upheaval? In this episode, I am in conversation with Lama Rod Owens, Black Buddhist Southern Queen and author of The New Saints, Love and Rage, and co-author of Radical Dharma. We discuss the role of love, rage, and grief in collective healing, how spiritual practice can help us survive and transform oppressive systems, and the power of lineage, ancestry, and teachers in shaping the way we move through the world. Throughout the conversation, Lama Rod invites us to resist numbing or spiritual bypassing, and instead allow emotions to become portals for deeper connection, clarity, and action.
WHAT WE COVER IN THIS EPISODE:
The relationship between love, rage, and liberation and why both are necessary for collective healing
Using spiritual practice as a tool to confront oppression
The importance of feeling, rather than bypassing, grief, anger, and discomfort
What it means to be in integrity with one’s practice during “apocalyptic” or uncertain times
How lineage, ancestors, and teachers guide our presence and action
ABOUT lama rod owens:
Lama Rod Owens is a Black Buddhist Southern Queen. An international influencer with a Master of Divinity degree in Buddhist Studies from Harvard Divinity School. Author of The New Saints: From Broken Hearts to Spiritual Warriors and Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger, and co-author of Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love and Liberation, his teachings center on freedom, self-expression, and radical self-care.
A leading voice in a new generation of Buddhist teachers, Lama Rod activates the intersections of his identity to create a platform that’s very natural, engaging, and inclusive. Applauded for his mastery in balancing weighty topics with a sense of lightness, the Queen has been featured by various national and international news outlets. Stay tuned to his website here for upcoming offerings.
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Yoga teacher Harpinder Kaur Mann shows American yoga practitioners a path to reclaim yoga from appropriation and recenter the practice where it belongs.
In Liberating Yoga, yoga teacher Harpinder Kaur Mann draws from her own perspective as a Sikh-Punjabi woman who was alienated by the way yoga is practiced in the United States, but found her way toward reclaiming the spiritual practice for herself. Mann demonstrates that moving away from appropriated forms of yoga and back to yoga's roots is the only true path to healing--both for yoga practitioners who desire to engage responsibly in the practice with cultural appreciation and, especially, for marginalized yogis who wish to reconnect with ancestral spiritual practices and reclaim their full identity.