LUMINOUS DARKNESS: AN ENGAGED BUDDHIST APPROACH TO EMBRACING THE UNKNOWN
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Welcome to Luminous Darkness: An Engaged Buddhist Approach to Embracing the Unknown. I poured my heart into this book in the spirit of service and am grateful to share its wisdom. For those who wish to go deeper with these teachings, please check my Retreats page for upcoming retreats and online courses about Luminous Darkness. Please also check out my Podcasts & Media, Audio & Video Teachings pages for more opportunities to explore Luminous Darkness. If this book has moved and inspired you, please consider writing a short review for Goodreads and/or Amazon.
In Peace and Passion,
Eden
Luminous Darkness SELECTED MEDIA
Please visit Podcasts & Media page for full listing.
The Road Home with Ethan Nichtern | 1.29.24
The Heart Leader Podcast with Austin and Amber | 1.17.23
Unlocking Happiness Podcast with Tenzin Chogkyi | 11.22.22
Bringing Meditation to Life with Neil McKinlay | 11.2.22
SparkZen Podcast with Reverend Shoren Heather | 9.18.22
I'm Awake! Now What? Podcast with Krista Xiomara | 9.25.22
Buddhist Wisdom Modern Life Podcast with Claire Villareal | 9.27.22
Mindrolling Podcast on Be Here Now with Raghu Markus | 10.4.22
The Mindful Minute Podcast with Meryl Arnett | 10.29.22
The Weekly Awakening Podcast with Colleen Dixon | 11.17.22
Becoming Mindful Podcast with Maria & Jackie | 10.3.22
Best Self Article | 8.18.22
Christopher Titmuss Dharma Blog | 9.16.22
Tricycle Magazine: What We’re Reading | Winter 2022
TESTIMONIALS FOR LUMINOUS DARKNESS
Nikki mirghafori, phd, buddhist Teacher & AI Scientist
“This beautiful book is an inspiring invitation to recognize the myriad dimensions of darkness as a teacher of love and wisdom.”
Kritee kanko, phd, climate scientists & zen priest
“This book deepens my trust in Eden as a spiritual teacher, friend, and mystic in these times of climate breakdown. Please allow this book and the practices described here guide you in allowing your body and psyche to touch or even hibernate in places that have seemed dark, confusing, haunting, and uncertain. We cannot find our way out of the climate chaos without embracing physical, emotional, and spiritual endarkenment!”
kaira jewel lingo, author of we were made for these times: ten lessons on moving through change, loss, and disruption
“The radical and practical teachings in this timely book offer us night vision, a way to connect with and befriend the vast, healing power of darkness and the unknown, a power we must all learn to access and cultivate for a viable future to be possible. Read this book and you will be equipped to meet the uncertainty of these times with resilience and trust.”
Stephanie Kaza
author of Green Buddhism
“In this moving spiritual memoir, Tull lifts up the role of darkness as teacher, healer, and guide, revealing spacious and emergent possibilities. Each chapter offers mindful inquiry and experiential practice gateways to explore the potential in darkness to restore inner strength and wholeness. Drawing on spiritual traditions from Zen to shamanism, Tull invites readers to engage the luminous capacities of darkness to counteract the overlighting of the planet and truly learn to see in the dark.”
Ruth King
Author of Mindful of Race
“A novel and inspiring exploration of darkness bringing grace and balance to the complexity of our time.”
Joanna Macy
author of Active Hope
“In this book, Deborah Eden Tull offers the strong medicine of darkness, which helps us navigate the uncertainty of our times. The overlighting of our planet in its urban and more populated areas robs people of access to their own hidden depths, so needed in these times of growing peril.”
christopher titmuss, britain’s senior dharma teacher
“The book needs to pass onto many Buddhist/mindfulness/meditation teachers and psychologists. There is a need to increase awareness of external factors for suffering due to aggressive social behaviour and the darkness in our problematic institutions rather than limit suffering and its resolution to the self.”
Misha Collins
actor, activist & NYT bestselling author of Some Things I Can’t Tell You: Poems
“In Luminous Darkness, we are reminded to turn away from ‘sun-lighting’ our way through life—pretending that everything is bright and light (or that it should be)—and reminded instead to face the real, inevitable darkness in our lives with grace, presence, and ‘fierce compassion.’ Eden, having struggled with near-debilitating illness for almost a decade, writes from a place of honest, experiential knowledge. Darkness, this book teaches, can be our greatest teacher.”
Nina simons
co-founder of bioneers
“From natural to social systems, Luminous Darkness illuminates with vivid imagery and sensory aliveness how reorienting and rebalancing ourselves inwardly is necessary to help heal our ailing cultures and this world.”
Pamela Weiss
author of A Bigger Sky
“Luminous Darkness is a wise, beautiful, important book. Through personal story, deep dharma teachings, and social commentary, Deborah Eden Tull reclaims the power of darkness and the divine feminine and reweaves the often-overlooked threads—of potent mystery, fierce compassion, receptivity and relationship, imagination, and emergence—into the cloth of spiritual life. This is essential reading for anyone seek- ing to heal the wounds of inner and outer divisiveness and engage our wide, aching world with a radiant, tender heart.”
Andrew Holecek
author of Dreams of Light
“Deborah Eden Tull skillfully illuminates the wonders of the dark, shedding light on areas of life where even angels fear to tread. Artificial light is destroying us, but the real light in this book can save us. By obeying the natural curfew of the night, and exploring the darkest corners of our mind, we can tap into natural resources previously buried in broad daylight. This book is a trustworthy guide to the treasures tucked within each of us.”
andrew harvey
Author of
The Hope & Engoldenment
“Luminous Darkness is an extraordinary and profoundly clear exploration of the greatest divine mystery of all: that luminous darkness in which as Rumi said, ‘the lovers drown themselves.’ Reading the book is itself an initiation, and the rewards of the initiation are profounder strength, vaster awe, and ineradicable commitment to celebration and justice.”
Video created by Nilaya Sabnis (dancer, photographer, filmmaker) nilayasabnis.com - Instagram: @nilayeah | Original music by RYTERBAND - ryterband.com | Voice by Deborah Eden Tull
