Ep. 576 – Redefining Sainthood with Lama Rod Owens
Mindrolling with Raghu Markus
Be Here Now Network
4.7 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Redefining sainthood as a deep care for ourselves and others, Lama Rod Owens and Raghu discuss reclaiming our sacredness and our identity.
Check out Lama Rod’s book, The New Saints, to learn more about becoming a spiritual warrior.
Within this episode, Raghu and Lama Rod discuss:
- Healing through music and other mystical experiences
- Lama Rod Owens’ college experience and getting into activism
- Re-framing our relationship to religion
- The freedom to be our most authentic selves
- Owning our own identity and sacredness
- Community and collective as the hero we all need
- The apocalypse as an unveiling of the truth
- Creating a culture of care and prioritizing well-being
- Disrupting habitual reactivity and transforming our responsiveness
- Loneliness on the spiritual path
About Lama Rod Owens:
Lama Rod Owens is a Black Buddhist Southern Queen. An international influencer with a Master of Divinity degree in Buddhist Studies from Harvard Divinity School with a focus on the intersection of social change, identity, and spiritual practice. Author of Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger and co-author of Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love and Liberation, his teachings center on freedom, self-expression, and radical self-care. Highly sought after for talks, retreats, and workshops, his mission is showing you how to heal and free yourself. A leading voice in a new generation of Buddhist teachers with over 11 years of experience, Lama Rod is highly respected among his peers and the communities that he serves. From these intersections, he creates a platform that’s very natural, engaging, and inclusive. Check out Lama Rod’s most recent publication, The New Saints and his podcast on the Be Here Now Network, The Spirit Underground.
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“I think that the most important spiritual practice is care, compassion love; I think that’s the common expression across many paths. A saint is defined by the depth of their care for others.” – Lama Rod Owens
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everyone, it's Ragu back with Mind Rolling. |
| 0:18.0 | Mind rolling. |
| 0:20.0 | God, we haven't described or defined that in a very long time actually some |
| 0:26.2 | of what we're going to talk to my guest today whose name is llama rod owens and has a really |
| 0:33.8 | quite great book the new saints it's called and and we're gonna talk about that a little bit. |
| 0:39.0 | But welcome, Rod. |
| 0:41.2 | Thank you, thank you for having me. |
| 0:43.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:44.5 | Now, Lama Rod is very close to someone |
| 0:48.4 | that many of you know, |
| 0:49.9 | and you know of Lama Rod with Spring Washam. |
| 0:53.6 | They do a podcast on Be Here Now Network. |
| 0:58.4 | And so I have to thank Spring for introducing us, actually. |
| 1:05.8 | Okay, so there's a lot going on in the book, |
| 1:13.6 | and you represent many different things. |
| 1:16.6 | But can you tell a little bit about how you arrived? |
| 1:22.6 | That's one way of putting it, or even just knowing, wow, okay, there is a way to transform. |
| 1:31.8 | I can be happy is what I always say. |
| 1:34.3 | I was so miserable Lama when I was a teenager and I got saved. |
| 1:39.8 | Actually, for me it was music. |
| 1:41.8 | Like John Coltrane saved me. |
| 1:43.7 | How about that? |
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