For naked to ourselves in our nightmares we can all be - if we’re not distracted or dozy with stimulants - a quivering mass of PTSD. That moment is the instant at which Owens sees that something far deeper lies beneath our rage. For our life can be worthless if it lacks the inner conflict of struggle. You’ll see the exact point of this book when the segue into pure classical Agon starts, in my Kindle notes. So I can tell you honestly that Owens’ book forced me to grab the live wire of my own howling rage during that long hiatus of all reason and decency that was the years 2016-2020.Īnd what I realized shocked me more than that electrical current did. Now, I’m no meditation adept like Lama Owens, but a four year undergraduate slog at earning an English degree, stone by heavy stone, has taught my words to play out the contents of my heart - as a concert musician might do. My neuroleptics tend to flatline all my more recent recollections anyway, which forgetfulness is to me a blessed anodyne.Īll I remember during those otherwise ugly four years is the delight of discovering Goodreads, and starting to WRITE MY HEART OUT. And some eighteen wheelers are better left uncommemorated. But until that cloudless day arrives, at an unnameable time in the future tense, I’l keep trying to SUBLIMATE my own Towering Rage.
“This will have to be one review I’ll perpetually put off writing until the halcyon day arrives when I feel at last EQUAL to the task (I wrote then).
#Lama rod owens love and rage license
I picked this one up upon getting myself off the floor and dusting myself off, two years ago - and trying vainly to recall the license plate number of the 18 wheeler that had flattened me during the violent political storms of the previous US Administration… Here he offers personal insights, stories from others, as well as Buddhist teachings and meditations for tapping into anger's liberating potential. What is needed, says Owens, is a relationship to the heartbreak of anger that is embodied, nondestructive, and deeply healing for all. However, too many activist communities have an ill-informed, immature, and romanticized relationship to it. When recognized and handled with attention, love, and compassion, it can be a powerful mobilizing factor in our solidarity and commitment to enacting social change. Anger serves as a bodyguard for our personal pain and suffering. For Owens, the coauthor of Radical Dharma, anger is one of the most important aspects of his personal identity as a Buddhist, social activist, African American, and gay man. Social activist and Kagyu lama Rod Owens offers a different understanding. In American culture at large, anger-particularly among people of color-is delegitimized, demonized, or "supposed to be" suppressed.
Reconsidering the power of anger as a positive and necessary tool for achieving spiritual liberation and social change.įor many Buddhists, anger is often thought of as a root cause for suffering and lasting, negative repercussions.
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