Love and Rage weaves the inimitable wisdom and lived experience of Lama Rod Owens with Buddhist philosophy, practical meditation exercises, mindfulness, tantra, pranayama, ancestor practices, energy work, and classical yoga. Instead, it is one that offers a potent vision of anger that acknowledges and honors its power as a vehicle for radical social change and enduring spiritual transformation. This is not a book about bypassing anger to focus on happiness, or a road map for using spirituality to transform the nature of rage into something else. In Love and Rage, Lama Rod Owens, coauthor of Radical Dharma, shows how this unmetabolized anger-and the grief, hurt, and transhistorical trauma beneath it-needs to be explored, respected, and fully embodied to heal from heartbreak and walk the path of liberation. An African-American teacher of Tibetan Buddhism reconsiders the power of anger as a positive and necessary tool for achieving spiritual liberation and social change A LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER In the face of systemic racism and state-sanctioned violence, how can we metabolize our anger into a force for liberation? White supremacy in the United States has long necessitated that Black rage be suppressed, repressed, or denied, often as a means of survival, a literal matter of life and death.

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