I picked this one up upon getting myself off the floor and dusting myself off, two years ago - and trying vainly to recall the license plate number of the 18 wheeler that had flattened me during the violent political storms of the previous US Administration… Here he offers personal insights, stories from others, as well as Buddhist teachings and meditations for tapping into anger's liberating potential. What is needed, says Owens, is a relationship to the heartbreak of anger that is embodied, nondestructive, and deeply healing for all. However, too many activist communities have an ill-informed, immature, and romanticized relationship to it. When recognized and handled with attention, love, and compassion, it can be a powerful mobilizing factor in our solidarity and commitment to enacting social change. Anger serves as a bodyguard for our personal pain and suffering. For Owens, the coauthor of Radical Dharma, anger is one of the most important aspects of his personal identity as a Buddhist, social activist, African American, and gay man. Social activist and Kagyu lama Rod Owens offers a different understanding. In American culture at large, anger-particularly among people of color-is delegitimized, demonized, or "supposed to be" suppressed. Reconsidering the power of anger as a positive and necessary tool for achieving spiritual liberation and social change.įor many Buddhists, anger is often thought of as a root cause for suffering and lasting, negative repercussions.
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