Practicing the Four Qualities of the New Saint
Lama Rod Owens provides guidelines for the modern bodhisattva, giving steps anyone can use to embody awakened care in their everyday lives.
Lama Rod Owens
Lama Rod Owens is an author, activist, authorized Lama in the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism, as well as a senior teacher at Bhumisparsha virtual spiritual practice community. He is the author of The New Saints: From Broken Hearts to Spiritual Warriors and Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger and co-author of Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation.
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The New Saints
An excerpt of a conversation between Lama Rod Owens and Tricycle's editor-in-chief, James Shaheen
The Magic of the New Saint
Lama Rod Owens on the power of surrendering to the agenda of liberation
A Love Song to My Anger
Lama Rod Owens discusses his new book, Love and Rage, and finding the wisdom of anger in charged times.
Accessing Refuge
Lama Rod Owens on finding peace in the pandemic
Meditation Meditation Month 2020
The Shamatha of Survival
Lama Rod Owens gives instruction in shamatha meditation, and discusses the role mindfulness played for him as means of survival in a world of harmful projections.
Poetry Month Week 3: Writing from the Core
Lama Rod Owens talks about poetry’s important role in his own spiritual practice.
Podcasts
Becoming the New Saints
In this episode of Tricycle Talks, Lama Rod Owens draws from the bodhisattva tradition to rethink the relationship between social liberation and ultimate freedom.
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Dharma Talks
Becoming A New Saint
Lama Rod Owens reinterprets the bodhisattva tradition and outlines the four qualities of the New Saint.
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