Working with Queer Rage | New York Insight
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Working Skillfully with Queer Rage – an Insight OUT Refuge LGBTQI Sangha Event
Monday, October 27th, 2025 | 6:30pm-8:30pm
In-Person Location: New York Insight at 115 West 29th Street, on the 12th Floor
Online: Link is below
Once again, queer communities in America are being attacked, lied about, and scapegoated by a regime driven by religious extremism. When we turn to the teachings of the Dharma, we find conflicting messages about how to work with the rage, fear, and hurt that naturally arises in response. Tonight we’ll explore different approaches to anger, in particular. One school of thought holds that anger is always bad: it is dosa, one of the three poisons that are the root of all negative states. Thus while we do not judge ourselves for feeling anger, we do work to lessen it. However, another school of thought (most recently given voice by Lama Rod Owens and others) holds that anger can be good, generative, and empowering. Rather than choose one of these approaches or try to make them agree with one another, we’ll explore how each of them resonate with our own experience and with the practice of engaged Buddhism in the context of the 21st century polycrisis.
Our community is open to students of all Buddhist traditions, as well as those who are in the beginning stages of exploring their meditation practice and have an interest in the Dharma. All those who identify as LGBTQI are welcome.
We invite all participants to please RSVP that you will be joining, in-person or Online: https://www.nyimc.org/event/insight-out-refuge-lgbtqi-sangha-3-2025-10-27/
