Instructions on how to join the conversation will be included in your event confirmation email. Please note that this conversation will be hosted live online and includes an audience Q&A. Joi n Executive Director of the Counter Narrative Project, Charles Stephens, for a conversation with Lama Rod e xploring how unmetabolized anger-and the grief, hurt, and transhistorical trauma beneath it-needs to be explored, respected, and fully embodied to heal from heartbreak and begin to walk the path of liberation.Įxploring and loving our anger can set us free. Lama Rod shares a potent vision of anger and rage that acknowledges and honors their power as vehicles for radical social change and enduring spiritual transformation. For Lama Rod, speaking about emotion, both universally, but also from a unique point of view as a Black man, is both healing and liberatory. 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. Key to his work today, and informed by his experiences, is his exploration of love, but also an emotion that we rarely speak about-rage. Through his writings, teachings, and travels Lama Rod invites everyone into his life intersections as a Black, queer male who was born and raised in the South, and heavily influenced by the church and its community. This has helped me to not only survive the world, but to have incredible experiences of thriving.This live online conversation was recorded on our CIIS Public Programs YouTube Channel.Ĭonsidered one of the leaders of a current generation of Buddhist teachers, Lama Rod Owens is a Buddhist minister, author, activist, and an authorized Lama-or Buddhist teacher-in the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism. not an inconvenience I'm trying to wish away. "I can't say I'm less angry," he writes, "but I can say anger is something I see as important. It is a practice that takes time, one that we never perfect. You can listen to the meditation at the top of the page, here, or try it on your own. Through decades of reflection, he has come to appreciate the lessons the fierce emotion holds and suggests a practice comprised of six steps that he links through the acronym SNOELL. This realization helped Owens re-orient his rage and learn how to create space to forge a "responsive relationship" with anger and other feelings. My anger is the single greatest threat to my life." Despite this, his anger is a constant companion - something that, over time, he began to understand as a "secondary" emotion brought on by something buried inside him: "I looked deeper and began to see that anger was the bodyguard for my broken heartedness, for a fundamental hurt that I've been born into that's not aligned with my intentions to be free, safe and happy."
Matter of fact, I have learned that my anger can get me killed. Life Kit Why Forgiving Someone Else Is Really About YouĪs a Black person in the United States, Owens writes in Love and Rage, "I have never been taught to use my anger in a constructive way.
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