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Love This World? Sep 03, 2023

Love This Whole, Messy, F*cked-Up World

An EcoDharma Talk Offered by Adam Lobel 

This is a transcript of a talk given on March 19, 2023 to participants in Love this World, an EcoDharma Exploration led by Adam Lobel.

Today our theme is loving this world, to love this world. And I want to...

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Releasement? Nov 19, 2022

The term ‘releasement’ evokes in its etymology a loosening, relaxation, and calm composure simultaneous with letting be.

Often connected with the mystical “letting be” (Gelassenheit) taught by the great medieval mystical philosopher, Meister Eckhart, it entered modern...

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Losing our Confidence: Four Subjectivities of the Present Mar 18, 2022

This is a transcribed talk from 2015 and an interview from 2016. It explores political philosophers Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt's "four subjectivities:" the indebted, the mediatized, the securitized, and the represented. It brings these subjectivities into relation with contemplative...

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An Introduction to the Four Fields Mar 08, 2022

The Four Fields are an ecological and socio-political context for contemplative practices. Instead of separating "internal" mindful and psychological methods from "external" ecosystems, social movements, and political practices, the Four Fields invite them to cohere together in a...

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Dead Turtle Animist Mar 08, 2022

An inquiry into the concept of "Nature" published in The Arrow Journal.

https://arrow-journal.org/dead-turtle-animist-towards-a-non-natural-ecopolitical-spirituality/

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