Just One Question | Osho Zenju Earthlyn Manuel: How Can We Accept Darkness?

Hello and welcome to Just One Question from Insights at the Edge. I'm Chris Rock. And I'm Mallory Corbin. We're producers at the Sounds True Podcast Network. We work with Tammy on Insights at the Edge to bring you transformational ideas from wisdom teachers around the world. And every week on this show, we pull out some of the most inspiring, most transformational ideas from those hundreds of conversations, and we bring them to you in the form of one question and one answer. We hope you enjoy. So, Mallory, I think you know that I can be a little bit dark sometimes. Yes, I've definitely noticed. Did you notice that? For sure. Today we're gonna take a more serious look at this idea with Osho Zenju Earthland Manuel.

Who was on Insights in twenty twenty three. Zenju is a poet, an ordained Zen Buddhist priest and author of Opening to darkness, eight gateways for being with the absence of light in unsettling times. So you pick this one because that title really called to your dark heart. I was like, This is I'm home. What really struck me was in this clip that we'll share. Zenji talks about when she had this severe anaphylactic reaction and she wasn't able to breathe. And she got through it by accepting this in what she called the darkness, accepting this absence of light.

And not being afraid. And another thing that you might not know is that I've actually had episodes where I can't breathe myself. My throat closes up. Yeah. And the only way that I can uh breathe again is to relax. Yeah, it's pretty counterintuitive. Right. So her story really struck me because she was having this moment and I've had these moments where You have to change your mindset to get through this really terrifying thing. And she does that by accepting it in what she calls accepting the darkness. Or the absence of light. That's really interesting because I feel like so many other teachers are kind of teaching you to look for that light at the end of the tunnel. So Sanji's telling us

We already have this episode, so unlocking it is cheap and permanent: the full transcript (15 minutes, 2,402 words), segment and word-level timestamps, and .txt, .srt, .vtt and word-level JSON downloads, as many times as you like, forever.

No account needed, we create one from your checkout email. With credits it is 1 credit; packs start at 5 episodes for $3.49, and monthly plans are cheaper still.