Luminous darkness : an engaged Buddhist approach to embracing the unknown /
Tull, Deborah Eden,
Luminous darkness : an engaged Buddhist approach to embracing the unknown / Deborah Eden Tull. - First edition. - x, 229 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-227).
Introduction: How I Fell in Love with the Dark -- Part I: Journey into Endarkenment: 1. Redefining Darkness: Physically and Symbolically -- 2. Befriending the Night: The Radiant Teachings of Darkness -- Part II: Darkness, Shared Power, and the Realm of Emotional Intelligence: 3. Fierce Compassion: The Mother of Endarkenment -- 4. Entering the Twilight Temple to Heal Our Pain for Our World -- Part III: The Spiritual Teachings of Divine Darkness: 5. Seeing in the Dark: The Quiet Power of Receptivity -- 6. Embracing the Slow Dark Processes of the Body and Healing -- 7. Creating New Maps Through Inner Vision -- Part IV: Restoring Wholeness in Ourselves and Our World: Collective Endarkenment: 8. Relational Intelligence: Seeing Each Other Clearly in the Dark -- 9. Dreams, Possibility, and Moral Imagination -- 10. Releasing Fear: Embracing Emergence -- Appendix -- Glossary -- Notes.
"We tend to want to avoid and ignore our dark or difficult emotions, biases, and tendencies-and we eschew them on a cultural and societal level because they reveal painful, ugly truths. The labeling of darkness as "negative" becomes a collective excuse to justify avoiding everything that makes humans uncomfortable: racism, spiritual bypass, environmental destruction. Welcoming darkness with curiosity and reverence, rather than fear or judgment, enables us to access our innate capacity for compassion and collective healing. In Seeing with the Heart, dharma teacher, shaman, and deep ecologist Deborah Eden Tull asks us to recognize, explore, and engage with the darkness we experience in our lives in order to learn important lessons and tools for bringing awakening, healing, and compassion to ourselves-and to our world. In an age of global uncertainty, Tull presents the radical teaching of endarkenment--that we can only awaken to wholeness through fully embracing the dark. Darkness, she posits, is not the absence of light, but an intrinsic, vital, healing, and restorative aspect of nature. Tull addresses the spiritual, ecological, psychological, and interpersonal ramifications of our bias towards light over dark. She offers a radical path to wholeness that can be found only through learning to embrace the interplay of both darkness and light, within ourselves and within our world. She offers inspiring teachings, meditations, and mindful inquiry questions to integrate into our daily practice an experiential understanding of endarkenment"--
1645470776 9781645470779
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020715856 Uk
Meditation.
Light and darkness.
Light and darkness--Psychological aspects.
Light and darkness--Philosophy.
Luminous darkness : an engaged Buddhist approach to embracing the unknown / Deborah Eden Tull. - First edition. - x, 229 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-227).
Introduction: How I Fell in Love with the Dark -- Part I: Journey into Endarkenment: 1. Redefining Darkness: Physically and Symbolically -- 2. Befriending the Night: The Radiant Teachings of Darkness -- Part II: Darkness, Shared Power, and the Realm of Emotional Intelligence: 3. Fierce Compassion: The Mother of Endarkenment -- 4. Entering the Twilight Temple to Heal Our Pain for Our World -- Part III: The Spiritual Teachings of Divine Darkness: 5. Seeing in the Dark: The Quiet Power of Receptivity -- 6. Embracing the Slow Dark Processes of the Body and Healing -- 7. Creating New Maps Through Inner Vision -- Part IV: Restoring Wholeness in Ourselves and Our World: Collective Endarkenment: 8. Relational Intelligence: Seeing Each Other Clearly in the Dark -- 9. Dreams, Possibility, and Moral Imagination -- 10. Releasing Fear: Embracing Emergence -- Appendix -- Glossary -- Notes.
"We tend to want to avoid and ignore our dark or difficult emotions, biases, and tendencies-and we eschew them on a cultural and societal level because they reveal painful, ugly truths. The labeling of darkness as "negative" becomes a collective excuse to justify avoiding everything that makes humans uncomfortable: racism, spiritual bypass, environmental destruction. Welcoming darkness with curiosity and reverence, rather than fear or judgment, enables us to access our innate capacity for compassion and collective healing. In Seeing with the Heart, dharma teacher, shaman, and deep ecologist Deborah Eden Tull asks us to recognize, explore, and engage with the darkness we experience in our lives in order to learn important lessons and tools for bringing awakening, healing, and compassion to ourselves-and to our world. In an age of global uncertainty, Tull presents the radical teaching of endarkenment--that we can only awaken to wholeness through fully embracing the dark. Darkness, she posits, is not the absence of light, but an intrinsic, vital, healing, and restorative aspect of nature. Tull addresses the spiritual, ecological, psychological, and interpersonal ramifications of our bias towards light over dark. She offers a radical path to wholeness that can be found only through learning to embrace the interplay of both darkness and light, within ourselves and within our world. She offers inspiring teachings, meditations, and mindful inquiry questions to integrate into our daily practice an experiential understanding of endarkenment"--
1645470776 9781645470779
GBC2E5276 bnb
020715856 Uk
Meditation.
Light and darkness.
Light and darkness--Psychological aspects.
Light and darkness--Philosophy.