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543 - Deborah Eden Tull (Zen Teacher, Author: Luminous Darkness)

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

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Embrace the Darkness, Not Eliminate the Dark.

A and i believe, in its essence, buddhism is about embracing the darkness, not eliminating the darkness from your life. Eden's approach to her teaching is that she is embracing the darkness and sees the darkness as a source of illumination,. And i definitely resonate with that. I've said this before, what a revelation it was to me when casilda explained to me that anti depressants are misnamed. They're not anti depressent, they're anti emotion. They're anti feeling pills. Sometimes the lows are low enough that any price is worth paying, including iliminating the hies for a while. But don't kid yourself, there's no selective re balancing. There

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