Luminous Darkness: An Engaged Buddhist Approach to Embracing the Unknown

A thoughtful, resonant call to explore the darkness in life--difficult, uncomfortable emotions like grief, fear, and prejudice--through teachings, meditations, and mindful inquiry that provide us with a powerful opportunity to heal.

Welcoming darkness with curiosity, rather than fear or judgment, enables us to access our innate capacity for compassion and collective healing. In Luminous Darkness, dharma teacher, shaman, and deep ecologist Deborah Eden Tull addresses the spiritual, ecological, psychological, and interpersonal ramifications of our bias towards light over dark.

Tull shows us how the labeling of darkness as "negative" becomes a collective excuse to justify avoiding everything that makes us uncomfortable: racism, spiritual bypass, environmental destruction. She offers inspiring teachings and practices such as Deep Listening, Three Sacred Breaths, and Listening to Music in the Dark, among many others. We can only find the radical path to wholeness through learning to embrace the interplay of both darkness and light.