Sounds of SAND #60 Spiritual Warriors: Lama Rod Owens
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Aug 28, 2025 Lama Rod Owens, a Black Buddhist Southern Queen and Harvard Divinity graduate, discusses radical self-care and compassion in a world facing turmoil. He emphasizes the necessity of personal healing to drive societal change, particularly in light of global conflicts. The conversation touches on the concept of 'new saints' who work altruistically within their communities, and the power of representation in spiritual writing. Finally, Owens highlights the transformative role of prayer in fostering connection and nurturing resilience.
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Let Your Heart Break, Then Mourn
- Allow your heart to break and move into collective mourning to honestly face and transform painful truths.
- Use mourning to transition from denial to concrete compassionate action.
Why He Wrote The New Saints
- Lama Rod wrote The New Saints as a manual to retranslate Buddhist teachings for younger people and make practice accessible.
- He framed the book to spare readers the slow process of metabolizing ancient teachings in traditional centers.
Discomfort Is The Path To Freedom
- Avoid using consumption to bypass suffering; real freedom requires turning toward and transforming hurt.
- Working through discomfort expands capacity for sustained joy and meaningful change.
