31 Ellen and Gary talk about dharma, biology, culture, psychotherapy | a secular dharma
Channel: a secular dharma?
Date: 2021-03-30

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Ellen and Gary discuss dharma, courses, gender, depression, and other stuff.

00:00 US situation (conversation took place during the insurrection in the US on 6 Jan 2021.)

06:00 dharma groups -  community -  personal connection - living dharma
11:30 book "Thicker than Blood"
13:00 centrality of connection/friendship
15:00 effects of pandemic
17:00 'defining' dharma
20:20 what is the point of dharma? dharmic worldview. is it so difficult to define?
22:30 'my dharma' - dealing with depression,  dealing will being alone, having fun; dharma as therapy
25:40 biology, evolution
28:50 dharma as psychoanalysis
29:30 elements of dharma in other cultures
34:30 how did i arrive at my own dharma?
40:00 dharma in al-anon
42:15 how central is dharma to your life?
44:30 life and dharma are woven together
44:50 are dharmic courses over-emphasizing the inner worlds?
50:00 psychotherapy - community - connection 
53:10 old white-haired men - gender issues