Opening to Darkness: Eight Gateways for Being With the Absence of Light in Unsettling Times

This is a profound exploration of darkness, interwoven with wisdom teachings, earth medicine, and indigenous spirituality. Zenju Earthlyn Manuel explores darkness as a cosmic landscape for transformation in unsettling times, rooted in indigenous earth-based wisdom, Buddhist practice, and lived experience. Here, we confront questions: what’s lost in our pursuit of light? What’s born into us and our world due to fear, oppression, and misunderstanding of the dark?

Manuel introduces eight deities who guide us through darkness, offering reflective inquiry, blessings, and meditations based on Buddha’s Eightfold Path. This book invites the reader to explore our collective and personal relationship with darkness and blackness, equipping us to be skilled, intuitive, and awake in the absence of light.

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