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My guest today is Lama Rod Owens, who's a friend, a teaching colleague.

Lama Rods, an author, an activist, and he's an authorized Lama, which is a Buddhist teacher

in the Kagu school of Tibetan Buddhism.

He has a Master of Divinity in Buddhist Studies from Harvard Divinity School, and it's got

a focus on the intersection of social change, identity, and spiritual practice.

His books include Love and Rage, the path of liberation through anger, and he's the co-author

of Radical Dharma.

His new book is called The New Saints, so we'll be talking about his new book today.

Really, how we can't separate our work for social transformation and liberation from

the path of spiritual freedom.

We'll talk about how freedom comes from a very courageous kind of honesty and authenticity.

We'll be exploring the need to attend to our social identities if we want to find out

who we really are, the power of directly longing for freedom, awakened care, the role of prayer

and spiritual practice, relating to trauma on the path of liberation, forgiveness, the

violence that can come from venerating others and diminishing ourselves, and really the

centering of loving our own inner life.

Lama Rods leads a beautiful meditation or receiving love, so I wanted to give you a sense

of what was up and coming, it's so very rich, and hope you enjoy.

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