Lama Rod Owens: The Path of the New Saint

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

To be a New Saint is to move into a direct relationship with suffering—our own and that of the world—and make a commitment to disrupt that suffering in any way we can, for as long as it takes. In this podcast, Tami Simon speaks with Lama Rod Owens about his trailblazing new book, The New Saints: From Broken Hearts to Spiritual Warriors.

Give a listen to this inspiring conversation on how each one of us can become effective agents of social and spiritual liberation. Tami and Lama Rod discuss awakened care and bodhicitta; partnering with ancestral forces and the unseen world; brokenheartedness and our collective emotional labor; disrupting reactivity; the radical act of choosing joy; experiencing our true home; two traits of a prophet: embodying clarity and telling the truth; the New Saint as an ordinary human being; the practice of receiving love; spiritual warriorship and what it means to "fight within love"; prayers of protection; the commitment to get free from suffering; consenting to the work of being a New Saint; and more.

Note: This episode originally aired on Sounds True One, where these special episodes of Insights at the Edge are available to watch live on video and with exclusive access to Q&As with our guests. Learn more at join.soundstrue.com.

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0:00.0	Hello friends. My name is Tammy Simon and I'm the founder of Sounds True and I want to welcome you to the Sounds True podcast, Insights at the Edge.
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1:17.3	One, friends, and welcome.
1:20.9	In this episode of Insights at the Edge, I am pleased to have the chance to introduce you to someone who I consider a friend, a brother, Lama Rod Owens.
1:32.0	Let me tell you a little bit about Lamuad. He is a self-described black Buddhist
1:38.8	Southern Queen who is an authorized Lamma in the Cagu school of Tibetan Buddhism with a master of
1:47.2	divinity degree from Harvard. He's the co-author of the book Radical Darma and the author of the widely acclaimed book Love and
1:56.8	Rage the Path of Liberation Through Anger.
2:01.5	Lamarrad is a truth teller.
2:04.0	He's someone who has a deeply sensitive nature
2:08.0	and he leads with strength.
2:11.0	He is someone that I think of as a good kind of troublemaker who has a gift for balancing weighty topics with a sense of lightness and humor.
2:25.0	Which sounds true, Lamarrad I am so proud to say is the author of a new book, it's called The New Saints, from Broken Hearts to Spiritual Warriors.
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