Uploaded March 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Talk titled: "An Ecology of Love (Part 1 - Introduction)", given during the event "An Ecology of Love". Held on 2015-12-21.

Topics covered: views/orientations in practice, ethics/engagement, desire/eros, concepts/logos, soulmaking: theophany, soulmaking: vertical spectrum / imaginal concertina, values: what they're rooted in and conditioned by, activism and engagement: working with burnout, emotions, skill with, metta, soulmaking: metta and eros, differences between, definitions: eros, views: mutual dependency of love and view

Teacher's note on suitability: a talk about love, eros, metta, and the dharma; about our sense of the earth, and a sense of the sacred.
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Original audio: dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/32199
Transcript link: dl.airtable.com/.attachments/7ecef1765f8a2a2e7f39fcc74ccebd89/9ce57caa/2015_1221AnEcologyofLovePart1-Introduction.pdf