Menu
Sign In Search Podcasts Charts People & Topics Add Podcast API Pricing
Podcast Image

10% Happier with Dan Harris

Buddhist Strategies for Suffering Less and Improving Your Meditation | Lama Rod Owens

25 Oct 2023

Description

New episodes come out every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for free, with 1-week early access for Wondery+ subscribers. --- Plus: Why Lama Rod is "no longer interested in being a good person," why we need to let go of perfectionism, and the selfish case for sainthood. Lama Rod Owens is making his fifth appearance on Ten Percent Happier. He describes himself as "a Black Buddhist Southern Queen" and is an authorized lama in the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism with a Master of Divinity degree from Harvard. His new book is The New Saints: From Broken Hearts to Spiritual Warriors. In this episode we talk about: What Lama Rod means by "New Saint" Why he is "no longer interested in being a good person" Why it's so important to let go of the ideal of perfection The practices and characteristics of a New Saint The questions you should ask yourself about your beliefs His experiences with what he refers to as "unseen beings" and his exploration of the "unseen world" Related Episodes: Meditation Party: Magic, Mystery, Intuition, Tattoos, and Non-Efforting | Sebene Selassie and Jeff Warren Lama Rod's first appearance on Ten Percent Happier Full Shownotes: https://www.tenpercent.com/tph/podcast-episode/lama-rod-owens-new-saints/lama-rod-owens-new-saints

Audio
Featured in this Episode

No persons identified in this episode.

Transcription

This episode hasn't been transcribed yet

Help us prioritize this episode for transcription by upvoting it.

0 upvotes
🗳️ Sign in to Upvote

Popular episodes get transcribed faster

Comments

There are no comments yet.

Please log in to write the first comment.