So the woundedness, the trauma, is actually disrupting the foundation of that identity, and then actually having to sit with the intensity of trying to figure out who you are now, after this identity location of whiteness has been disrupted. Lama Rod Owens is an author, activist, and authorized Lama (Buddhist Teacher) in the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism and is considered one of the leaders of. In his own words, Lama Rod Owens is a Black, queer, cisgender, and male. During this time of uprising and reckoning, disillusion and disorientation, pain and loss, it’s hard to think of a more relevant voice than Lama Rod Owens’s. When I’m working with white folks, it’s helping to support white folks in actually connecting to the trauma of whiteness and what whiteness has meant, whiteness as a system that has to be maintained because that’s where identity location has been planted. Lama Rod Owens discusses his new book, Love and Rage, and finding the wisdom of anger in charged times. I think a good example is whiteness, white supremacy. What are you actually doing in channeling the energy of this anger, and is that channeling of the energy actually helping you to somehow take care of the hurt? For people who experience a lot of oppression and social marginalization, I think there’s a closer connection to the hurt than I would say for people who experience more social privilege. Lama Rod Owens Creativity, Spirituality & Making a Buck Podcast / David Nichtern Set and Setting / Madison Margolin Healing at the Edge / RamDev The. Bhumisparsha Retreat October 2022 in Atlanta, GA. But no one knows about the early life of the Son of God, the missing. But as you move away from the hurt into the tension that arises, it’s how we’re channeling that anger. Lama Rod Owens He holds a Master of Divinity degree in Buddhist Studies from Harvard Divinity School and is included in the 2021 GOMES STB ’68 Distinguished Alumni Honorees List. It all comes from hurt, and for me, I don’t judge the hurt.
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