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Love and Rage

The Path of Liberation Through Anger

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Love and Rage

Written by: Lama Rod Owens
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A Los Angeles Times Best Seller

In the face of systemic racism and state-sanctioned violence, how can we metabolize our anger into a force for liberation?

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. In Love and Rage, Lama Rod Owens, coauthor of Radical Dharma, shows how this unmetabolized anger - and the grief, hurt, and transhistorical trauma beneath it - needs to be explored, respected, and fully embodied to heal from heartbreak and walk the path of liberation. This is not a book about bypassing anger to focus on happiness or a road map for using spirituality to transform the nature of rage into something else. Instead, it is one that offers a potent vision of anger that acknowledges and honors its power as a vehicle for radical social change and enduring spiritual transformation.

Love and Rage weaves the inimitable wisdom and lived experience of Lama Rod Owens with Buddhist philosophy, practical meditation exercises, mindfulness, tantra, pranayama, ancestor practices, energy work, and classical yoga. The result is a book that serves as both a balm and a blueprint for those seeking justice who can feel overwhelmed with anger - and yet who refuse to relent. It is a necessary text for these times.

©2020 Lama Rod Owens (P)2021 North Atlantic Books
Americas Anger Management Buddhism Personal Development Social Sciences United States Physical Exercise Rage Meditation

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“Lama Rod Owens’s voice is a distinct coming together of streams of identity that pour forth an ocean of wisdom that is relevant to anyone that has ever experienced anger. He speaks with a rawness and candor that is both disarming and invitational, creating space for the whole of who you are to enter fully into - regardless of race, religion, sexual identity, body type or ability. Drawing equally on the endless suffering of peoples and bodies marginalized and oppressed, and the timeless wisdom that lies beyond identity and circumstance, he asks that we fiercely honor and hold the complexity of it all to heal ourselves to become the ancestors in training we are meant to be. His language draws from Buddhism, experience from Blackness, and he beckons toward a wide path of Love that has room for everyone.” (Rev. angel Kyodo williams, sensei, founder of Radical Dharma Movement Project, and coauthor of Radical Dharma)

“This work is personal, political, and practical. Lama Rod Owens is wildly generous in letting us see him wrestle his way through his own pain, rage, and arousal. He weaves us from his own story to ours, from his Blackness, gayness, his prophetic nature, to our collective need to feel, harness, and express anger. And then every other page offers practices, practical guidance on how to be in right relationship to anger, to understand the power and wholeness of rage. What a gift!” (adrienne maree brown, author of Emergent Strategy)

Love and Rage is a deep dive into how we are shaped by our perceptions of anger in a culture marked by dividedness and contempt. Through the lens of mindfulness and compassion-based practices, Lama Rod Owens shows us how the power of rage can be transformed into a force of healing in our fractured world.” (Tara Brach, author of Radical Compassion)

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Accessible and Relatable

Lama Rod Owen’s never disappoints! He is one of my favourite Buddhist speakers/writers who particularly shares from his perspective as a marginalized person who experiences oppression. As a marginalized person myself, I find it hard sometimes to find people I can learn from and obtain wisdom from who are relatable to my own experiences. Although my identity may be slightly different, QueerCrip, there are underlying tones to our experiences that connect all marginalized peoples.

In this book Lana Rod focuses on the experience of anger, and he has a very unique perspective d he shares. Anger is something that should be felt. It is not simply “the root of suffering”, and therefore something to be rid of or avoided. Anger is an important emotion. Anger can be motivating and illicit a courage within us. When we are mindfully aware of anger within our body, we can choose how we react. We can react from a place of love, or we can react from a place of violence.

In our current society, violence from anger is all too prevalent. We have become people who deny that we are feeling angry, until that anger boils over into violence, meanwhile we are completely unaware of how we got there because we are so disconnected from ourselves. There is so much we can learn from great minds like Lama Rod Owens. I am so grateful I had stumbled upon his work and wisdom, and that I have found someone who makes Buddhism accessible and relatable to all.

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