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Lessons from a Solstice

Guided Contemplative Practice on Heat

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Editor's Introduction

Adam Lobel offered this practice to participants in our June 2021 EcoDharma Exploration. Visit the program page for the full recorded gathering, as well as additional resources: Lessons from a Solstice

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We are generators of heat and warmth. There is warmth flowing through our blood, our heart, our belly, our skin. And in some ways, this heat is inseparable from the heat around us, the warmth in the core of the planet, the heat of the sun, the heat of the season, and the warming of our climate.

Mindfully, without judgment, without fear, just feeling into heat. Making a relationship with a warming world. And this can extend to the heat of our computers. The hot cell phone, the heat in our buildings, hot car engines 
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Attune to warmth and heat, as if there was something shared with the sun, the solstice, and all of the heat generated in the cosmos.

The transcript of this practice can be found here.

This guided practice can also be found on Insight Timer, along with other EcoDharma practices from One Earth Sangha.
Adam Lobel

Adam Lobel, Ph.D, practices at the threshold of ecologies, Buddhist meditation and philosophy, contemplative education, and psycho-social political change. His work in the world weaves these practices together into the Four Fields. Adam is a scholar-practitioner of philosophy and religion, focusing on Dzogchen Tibetan Buddhism and contemporary theory. He is active in contemplative design and research. A teacher of Ecopsychology and a Focusing professional, he is curious about cultural therapeutics for social upheavals. He leads ecodharma workshops, teaches in the Ecosattva Training, is a Guiding Teacher for One Earth Sangha, a GreenFaith fellow, and is active in environmental justice movements. He helped found 4F Regeneration, an ecological consulting organization to support individuals and nonprofits on the front lines of protecting the earth. He lives in Pittsburgh, PA with his partner and two kids where he protects lands from the petrochemical industry. For more on Adam’s practices: www.releasement.org

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