Lama Rod Owens at Akazienzendo: Healing Broken Hearts and Walking the Bodhisattva Path (Part 1/2)

Am 12. und 13. April 2024 war Lama Rod Owens beim Akazienzendo zu
Gast. Veranstaltungsort war das Lotos Vihara in Berlin. Unter dem
Titel „Gebrochene Herzen heilen und den Bodhisattva-Weg gehen“
gab er erst einen Abendvortrag und am Folgetag einen
praxis-orientierten Workshop, von dem wir Auszüge hier zur
Verfügung stellen. On April 12 and 13, 2024, Lama Rod Owens was a
guest at Akazienzendo. The venue was the Lotos Vihara in Berlin.
Under the title "Healing Broken Hearts and Walking the
Bodhisattva Path", he first gave an evening lecture and on the
following day a practice-oriented workshop, excerpts of which we
provide here. Upon his visit to Akazienzendo, Lama Rod Owens
explored the meaning of liberatory practice. Remembrance, beauty,
opulence, and love are key ingredients to the struggle for
freedom that does not resolve suffering, but that gives the space
to respond to it. Practice therefore is about creating and
holding the space to give a shit. Lama Rod shares his personal
history with Buddhist practice, the painful and revelatory
initial experiences of meditation and the disruption of a
three-year retreat that would bring profound transformation.