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Talk titled: "An Ecology of Love (Part 4)", given during the event "An Ecology of Love". Held on 2015-12-21.
Topics covered: ethics/engagement, eros-psyche-logos (the soulmaking dynamic), self-views, noticing and practicing with, oneness and universality reducing care for particulars, desire/eros, soulmaking: self becoming imaginal, re-enchanting self, four noble truths, critique: the practice of 'just letting go', concepts/logos, soulmaking: vertical spectrum / imaginal concertina, metta, clinging / craving: limitations of common approaches, emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating, scientism / scientific materialism / reductionism
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/32198
Transcript link: dl.airtable.com/.attachments/380c0976033f02f843341aa146658a4e/b51ff772/2015_1221AnEcologyofLovePart4.pdf
Talk titled: "An Ecology of Love (Part 4)", given during the event "An Ecology of Love". Held on 2015-12-21.
Topics covered: ethics/engagement, eros-psyche-logos (the soulmaking dynamic), self-views, noticing and practicing with, oneness and universality reducing care for particulars, desire/eros, soulmaking: self becoming imaginal, re-enchanting self, four noble truths, critique: the practice of 'just letting go', concepts/logos, soulmaking: vertical spectrum / imaginal concertina, metta, clinging / craving: limitations of common approaches, emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating, scientism / scientific materialism / reductionism
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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To donate to Rob's foundation, The Hermes Amara Foundation, visit https://hermesamara.org, and click the Donate button. See Rob's Dharma Seed bio (dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/) for a description of this organization and Rob's founding of it.
Original audio: dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/32198
Transcript link: dl.airtable.com/.attachments/380c0976033f02f843341aa146658a4e/b51ff772/2015_1221AnEcologyofLovePart4.pdf
