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EcoDharma Exploration

Connected and Embedded

Countering Consumerism with Participation

This EcoDharma Exploration featuring Desert Dharma guiding teacher Susie Harrington took place on Sunday, December 19, 2021. Find the recording and resources below. We welcome your support for this program.

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What is it to live a life that acknowledges our participation in the flow of resources and energy, recognizing that this can have wholesome and unwholesome results? How can we embrace our belonging to this world as we minimize harm and honor the true impact of our everyday living?

EcoDharma Explorations are offered monthly for you to explore a particular aspect of EcoDharma as well as develop a sense of community. In this gathering on Sunday, December 19, Susie Harrington of Desert Dharma led us in an investigation of living courageously and responsibly in the face of delusions of endless growth and consumption.

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Susie Harrington is the guiding teacher for Desert Dharma and Sky Mind Retreats, teaching both in the Southwest and internationally since 2005.  She delights in teaching outdoors, knowing that nature nourishes the heart and inspires wisdom. She encourages, through silence and intimate presence, coming home to our embedded natural aliveness and belonging, and the freedom that is our natural state. Her roots are in the Insight tradition, having trained extensively with Jack Kornfield, Guy Armstrong, and Joseph Goldstein; she is also well practiced in the Tibetan and Diamond Heart traditions as well as in Hakomi Therapy. For more information: Desert Dharma

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One Earth Sangha and our featured speakers offer these explorations on a donation basis, with no required registration fee. We invite you to participate in the tradition of offering dana, or generosity. Your support makes these gatherings possible, and any amount offered is greatly appreciated.

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Additional Resources

  • Desert Dharma
    Desert Dharma provides Buddhist insight meditation programs and retreats with guiding teacher Susie Harrington, with an emphasis on retreats in nature.
  • Buddhist Eco-Chaplaincy
    Led by Susie Harrington, Gil Fronsdal, Kristen Rudestam, Ram Appalaraju, and other guest teachers and facilitators, this program offers basic Buddhist training in the wisdom and skill needed to be a Buddhist Environmental Chaplain, i.e., those who work to support people in developing healthy, compassionate, and mutually supportive relationships with each other and with the natural world.

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