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Lama Rod Owens

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Lama Rod Owens is a Black Buddhist Southern Queen and an international influencer with a Master of Divinity degree in Buddhist studies from Harvard Divinity School. A leading voice featured by various national and international news outlets, he is the author of the bestsellers The New Saints: From Broken Hearts to Spiritual Warriors and Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger, as well as co-author of Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love and Liberation. His teachings center on freedom, self-expression, and radical self-care. Learn more at lamarod.com

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Season 1 · Episode 10Awakening with Mingyur Rinpoche
What is enlightenment? What does it mean to be truly awake? Are you awake? In this final episode, we will look back at highlights from all our guests and consider enlightenment with Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
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Season 1 · Episode 7Befriending Your Ego with Lama Rod Owens
What is the ego, and what role might it play in the process of awakening? In this episode we ponder these questions with best-selling author, activist, and Buddhist teacher Lama Rod Owens.
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Are You Woke?
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Pleasure, Power, and Sexual Liberation
A conversation on how we can use this cultural moment as an opportunity to liberate our collective conditioning around power, pleasure, gender, sexuality, and consent.
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Pleasure, Power, and Sexual Liberation
What actions can we take to heal a society reeling from the abuse of power in the realms of gender and sexuality?

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