Love and Rage

Outline

Love and Rage (2020) explores how anger can be understood, accepted, and transformed into a source of wisdom, compassion, and constructive action. Lama Rod Owens combines Buddhist teachings, meditation practices, personal experiences, and reflections on trauma, racism, identity, and social injustice. Rather than suppressing anger or allowing it to become destructive, the book teaches readers to examine its roots, care for the pain beneath it, and use its energy to support personal healing and collective liberation.

• Anger is not something to suppress or let turn destructive; it can be understood, accepted, and turned into wisdom and constructive action.
• Examining where your anger comes from helps you see the roots it grows from.
• Beneath anger there is often pain, and caring for that pain is part of working with the anger itself.
• Love and rage can exist together, and the energy of anger can support personal healing and collective liberation.
• Mindfulness, meditation, self-awareness, and compassion are the practical tools the book offers for transforming anger.

Lama Rod Owens is an American Buddhist teacher, author, activist, and spiritual leader trained in the Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. He earned a master’s degree in Buddhist studies from Harvard Divinity School and teaches meditation, self-care, emotional healing, and social liberation. Drawing on his experiences as a Black man raised in the American South, he connects Buddhist practice with questions of identity, justice, trauma, and community.