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Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

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

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

Chris Ryan

Society & Culture, Arts

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2022

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

DEBORAH EDEN TULL, founder of Mindful Living Revolution, is a Zen meditation and engaged dharma teacher, public speaker, author, and sustainability educator who trained for seven and a half years as a Buddhist monk at a silent Zen monastery and has taught engaged dharma for over 20 years. Her most recent book is Luminous Darkness: An Engaged Buddhist Approach to Embracing the Unknown.

Click here to listen to Anya Kaats’ conversation with Deborah Eden Tull on A Millennial’s Guide to Saving the World.

Intro music “Brightside of the Sun,” by Basin and Range. “Dark Cloud,” by Chris Thomas King; Outro: “Smoke Alarm,” by Carsie Blanton.

Here’s the link to our meetups. Check in, if you’re somewhere between Whitefish and Santa Cruz.

And now for something extra, just for Substack subscribers. I’ve been listening to Peter Zeihan’s geo-political thinking lately. Here’s his take on Covid (recorded while on a month-long hike in the Sierras).



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Transcript

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0:00.0

Radio Manu, Papa Tzango.

0:30.0

Hello boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen, and everybody else.

0:35.2

Welcome to another edition of tangentially speaking.

0:37.9

I'm your host, Dr. Christopher Ryan.

0:41.4

I'm sitting in a van in Missoula, Montana.

0:44.8

That's traffic you're going by most likely.

0:48.1

I'm just outside.

0:50.1

Excuse me.

0:51.1

I'm outside of Clyde coffee across the street from bridge pizza,

0:57.4

where I had some delicious pizza last night.

1:01.4

And Clyde coffee has a line out the door, but they do have very fast Wi-Fi.

1:06.1

Hence my presence.

1:09.3

Recording this in the van, and then I'm going to go in and upload it.

1:13.7

Starting on the seventh on your cuts, and I will be teaching a workshop in whitefish

1:20.8

with Cameron and Malayne Shane, who are some incredible human beings, capable of amazing feats,

1:31.4

physical feats.

1:32.5

I've seen them do things that I wouldn't have thought a human body could do.

1:41.0

But what do you know?

1:42.6

They can do it.

1:43.4

They do these incredible yoga movement, martial arts stuff,

1:49.4

and we're going to somehow combine our approaches to life and teach a workshop there for a few days.

1:56.1

So that'll be interesting.

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