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We study the stability of harmonic maps between Finsler manifolds and Riemannian manifolds with positive Ricci curvature, and we prove that if Mⁿ is a compact Einstein Riemannian minimal submanifold of a Riemannian unit sphere with Ricci curvature satisfying $Ric^M > n/2$, then there is no non-degenerate stable harmonic map between M and any compact Finsler manifold.