8/28/2023 0 Comments Lama rod owens on liberationBut at that event, where this young Black man was just like, “What do I do with anger? How do I choose happiness?” I really realized that this would be an important teaching to offer. Before that I was really avoiding writing a book on anger. When you first started, you wrote that there was this moment where you were giving a talk with your co-author of Radical Dharma, and there was this Black gentleman who spoke about anger, and that was kind of the genesis which started your writing of Love and Rage. A lot of folks started waking up to the reality of these harmful systems. So we were having to negotiate racial injustice, economic injustice, climate instability at the same time negotiating a pandemic. We continue to live within systems and institutions that are creating violence for a lot of different people. And of course, on top of that, the world continues. Last year, I think a lot of folks just started waking up and realizing that they had to start making different decisions and choices about how they were living their lives. That kind of holding space for me always triggers this deep kind of contemplation and discernment about what my work is. The beginning of the quarantine reminded me of my years in my three-year retreat where everything just kind of shut down and I was just really holding space in one place for an extended period of time. I think last year the beginning of quarantine and the pandemic really forced people to do intense discernment about exactly what they were doing in their lives. Has it felt like lately there has been a much more ramped up conversation or discourse about existing and how to make sense of these times? I’m a little tired, but for the most part, mentally I’m feeling clear, open and fluid which is really wonderful. But I am originally from Rome, Georgia, so this is like returning home. This is traditionally, historically the land of the Muskogee people and the Cherokee people. I am speaking from Atlanta, where I just relocated to. Lama Rod thank you so much for joining us.
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