Equinox Talk - Susan Murphy: (In a rapidly heating world) Compassion is a cool fire
Sun, 17 Mar
|Clifton Hill
“We are the only protectors; and we are what needs to be protected; and we are what it needs to be protected from.” Robert Hass
time & place
17 Mar 2024, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm AEDT
Clifton Hill, 100 Hodgkinson St, Clifton Hill VIC 3068, Australia
About
An old Daly River elder once called out our entirely strange way of living in a state of alienation to the earth – and thus even to ourselves - as “living by damage”.
Join us on March 17 for our Equinox Talk, to be delivered by Zen teacher, author and filmmaker, Susan Murphy.
The case for the reality of a global climate emergency and eco-crisis no longer needs to be made; it is now being forcefully prosecuted by the earth herself. We find ourselves caught in the glare, implicated in every direction: clearly responsible for causing the damage we so badly need protection from, while finally having to face the state of alienation from the earth that makes us such a dire threat to the entire earth community.
Compassion – literally, feeling with and actively opening towards the evidence of suffering – is the end of alienation. I want to explore it as a kind of ‘cool fire’ –…