![]() You shouldn't be angry, you shouldn't be traumatized, you know? But but my experience is the experience of being human, and so to be human means that I experience fear, that I experience trauma, that I experience rage, I experience disappointment, and my work as a practitioner is to simply show up to those experiences and to allow those experiences to move through my mind, to move through my body in whatever way is appropriate.Ĭharles: I really appreciate you taking us there because part of what I've struggled with is what does it mean in this moment to be an activist, to be a leader, to be a movement leader and to be able to be vulnerable, to have a sense of despair. But the question that we should be wrestling with is can I really be in relationship to what's arising no matter how strong or ambiguous it may seem, right? No matter what arises I can I touch it, can I be with it, can I hold space for it right? Because that's going to determine how I enter into an experience of liberation.įor me, you know I would just say for me you know people look at me and they like they go oh you know after all these years you know you should be you know you should be enlightened by now. The rage, the anger, the despair, the sorrow, the terror, the surprise, the shock, the utter disappointment, the trauma. The truth is being revealed right, and the truth takes training to be in relationship with you know, and not all of us have the training to be in a relationship with the truth nor are we interested in doing the work to train to be in a relationship to the truth, so we're going to be having very different experiences across the board, you know?Īnd you know, and everything that's coming up for us as we're living through this moment, as we've lived through the past years, we continue to live into this new year everything that's arising for us is supposed to be arising, right. ![]() Lama Rod: Yeah, you know it's this is a time of things falling apart, you know, and I call this time the apocalypse, you know? Or at least an apocalypse right, but this is the apocalypse means unveiling you know it means revelation actually. I think a lot of us have even sought to find meaning for ourselves for our communities. Of course, there's a lot of anger and rage which I think is part of the spirit of this evening and I was just wondering, to get us started if you could provide just some reactions to all of what's happening. Many of us have I think struggled to think through what's happening. Lama Rod: Let's chop it up, let's get to it.Ĭharles: You know as I was thinking about what to say to you and how to start this conversation, I kind of feel like we've been having just one long conversation throughout our friendship and we initially, and I should perhaps provide some background… I think how we initially thought the conversation would go we started talking about it maybe a month ago, a lot has changed since we initially started thinking through this conversation including the events of last week and the violence that we all witnessed with the siege at the Capitol. Through our programming, we strive to amplify the voices of those who have historically been under-represented. To find out more about CIIS and public programs like this one, visit our website and connect with us on social media Music Concludes] This is the CIIS Public Programs Podcast, featuring talks and conversations recorded live by the Public Programs department of California Institute of Integral Studies, a non-profit university located in San Francisco on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone Land. You can also watch a recording of this and many more of our conversation events by searching for “ CIIS Public Programs” on YouTube. It was recorded during a live online event on January 14, 2021. In this episode, Lama Rod is joined by Executive Director of the Counter Narrative Project, Charles Stephens, for a conversation about 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. 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. ![]() Lama Rod Owens: On Rage, Love, and LiberationĬonsidered 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. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |