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Buddhist Minister, Author, Activist, Yoga Instructor, Authorized Lama, Queen

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“There’s no liberation without actually leaning forward and looking at the things that we habitually run away from, in order to see things as they really are, not as we have imagined them.”

Self-Guided Course


The Dharma of Spiritual Abolition: Self-Guided Course on the Heart Sutra

with Lama Rod Owens

This Self-Guided Course explores how we might abolish anything that prevents us from being in direct, honest, and compassionate relationships first with ourselves and then the communities we belong to. The Heart Sutra is one of the tools available to us in this work of liberation.

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2025 U.K. Retreat

Autumn Moon

September 26th - October 1st, 2025

We will experience practices and teachings to harvest what we have personally seeded and prepare to rest and reflect on balance, surrender, and stillness as Winter approaches.

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Receive a recording of an online book talk celebrating The New Saints & a sneak peek of the book for free!

 

“Our era calls for saints who are from this time and place, who speak the language of this moment, and who integrate both social and spiritual liberation. I believe we all can and must become New Saints.”

Discover insights and techniques to ignite your inner fierceness and compassion; create a sustainable spiritual practice that serves others and the planet; and embody the virtues of a New Saint.

Here is a clarion call for becoming a spiritual warrior—a human refreshed, serving a vision of a world shaped by love.

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“The New Saints is breathtakingly honest. From grief and loneliness to radical acceptance, Lama Rod Owens beautifully weaves in the complexities of being human and truly getting free. It is a gift to be on this Earth in the same space and time as Lama Rod Owens.”

—Nova Reid, author of The Good Ally

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“The New Saints will challenge your current understanding and offer fresh inspiration about ways, together, we can bring healing to our beautiful and broken world. This is a bold and powerful offering—one that attunes to our times with great lucidity, wisdom, and heart.”

—Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance and Radical Compassion

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