num_pages: 256
description: Reconsidering the power of anger as a positive and necessary tool for achieving spiritual liberation and social change.For many Buddhists anger is often thought of as a root cause for suffering and lasting negative repercussions. In American culture at large anger--particularly among people of color--is delegitimized demonized or supposed to be suppressed. Social activist and Kagyu lama Rod Owens offers a different understanding. 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. Anger serves as a bodyguard for our personal pain and suffering. 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. However too many activist communities have an ill-informed immature and romanticized relationship to it. What is needed says Owens is a relationship to the heartbreak of anger that is embodied nondestructive and deeply healing for all. Here he offers personal insights stories from others as well as Buddhist teachings and meditations for tapping into anger's liberating potential.
language: English
title: Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger
publisher: North Atlantic Books