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10% Happier with Dan Harris
This new book by Lama Rod Owens aimed to reclaim the word 'saint' by proposing a messy and self-interested version of sainthood rooted in the Buddhist concept of the Bodhisattva ideal. The author intended for the book to offer contemporary and straightforward inspiration, written from his personal perspective as a Black Buddhist Southern Queen.
He's making the case for a kind of messy and also self interested version of sainthood. The self interest has at least two levels. This kind of sainthood will actually make you happier and it will als...
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Episode: Buddhist Strategies for Suffering Less and Improvi...
This new book by Lama Rod Owens aimed to reclaim the word 'saint' by proposing a messy and self-interested version of sainthood rooted in the Buddhist concept of the Bodhisattva ideal. The author intended for the book to offer contemporary and straightforward inspiration, written from his personal perspective as a Black Buddhist Southern Queen.
He's making the case for a kind of messy and also self interested version of sainthood. The self interest has at least two levels. This kind of sainthood will actually make you happier and it will also in the view of my guest improve the world.
This time he came on though just to specifically discuss his new book which is called The New Saints.
And when I say divine or sacred, I'm not just talking about God or emptiness or something but I'm talking about tuning into something that's about trying to be of help and trying to be of benefit so that selflessness you know that isn't about pushing aside the sense of what we need but actually putting our needs alongside the needs of others and figuring out how to get everyone's needs met.
I'm really interested in you understanding that it's our humaneness right our emotions our sensations everything that comes up for us we're trying to develop a really spacious fluid relationship to everything that arises for us I'm not trying to control the thing I'm trying to offer space to the thing so I can transform my relationship to it.
Absolutely so the new saints from broken hearts to spiritual warriors and you can visit my website lama rod dot com for many other resources and you can follow me on social media Instagram link down and so forth for more resources as well.