Love and Fear During Times of War: Interview with Lama Rod Owens

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🗓️ 24 July 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Love and Fear During Times of War: An Interview with Lama Rod Owens (2020-07-22) - This is a time of darkness and war. Fear lies at the heart of much of the violence we are experiencing. How do we befriend our fear and offer it permission to teach us how to move through it into a state of freedom? How do we use our fear to connect to the fear so many other people are experiencing? Ultimately, how do we begin to love what is unlovable, especially our fear?
We will call on the teachings of Buddhadharma as well as our own intrinsic wisdom to lean into our fear with love.

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0:00.0	Greetings. We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
0:07.9	To make a donation, please visit tarbrock.com.
0:25.5	Welcome you, Lama Rod, to our community and our larger community.
0:30.9	Just fabulous to have you here.
0:32.7	And I love the title and the topic that you offered, love and fear during times of war.
0:41.9	Here we are during these times and maybe just to begin, how are you doing?
0:47.1	How's your heart with ones going on these days?
0:51.5	Yeah, I'm exhausted.
0:55.6	Actually, I'm tired and I don't think that's anything particularly new.
1:07.0	But I think the fatigue comes from the way in which I like many of us and probably your
1:12.4	stuff as well, Taro, where we're stepping up the practice to hold not just our particular
1:20.2	struggle but also the struggle of the world, of so many folks around us.
1:26.6	There's deep conflicts right now.
1:32.0	When I talk about war, I'm also talking about spiritual warfare happening.
1:38.1	I feel like there's the spirit.
1:42.9	It's in conflict for many of us.
1:48.4	I'm really being called to the cushion to really dig into love and compassion and
1:59.3	gratitude and patience and empathy right now.
2:04.6	Because I think those are how we care for ourselves and care for the world.
2:15.8	And I'm still doing very well.
2:20.3	At the same time, I'm still really grateful for practice and that tends to the ways in
2:28.8	which maybe sometimes I can get hopeless and experience hopelessness and fear.
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