The Dharma of the Princess Bride by Ethan Nichtern

The Dharma of the Princess Bride by Ethan Nichtern

Humorous yet spiritually rigorous in the tradition of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and The Taoof Pooh, drawing from pop culture and from personal experience, The Dharma of "The Princess Bride" teaches us how to understand and navigate our most important personal relationships from a twenty-first-century Buddhist perspective. Friendship. Romance. Family. These are the three areas Ethan Nichtern delves into, taking as departure points the indelible characters--Westley, Fezzik, Vizzini, Count Rugen, Princess Buttercup, and others from Rob Reiner's perennially popular film--as he also draws lessons from his own life and his work as a meditation teacher. Nicthern devotes the first section of the book to exploring the dynamics of friendship. Why do people become friends? What can we learn from the sufferings of Inigo Montoya and Fezzik? Next, he leads us through all the phases of illusion and disillusion we encounter in our romantic pursuits, providing a healthy dose of light heartedness along the way by sharing his own Princess Buttercup List and the vicissitudes of his dating life as he ponders how we idealize and objectify romantic love. Finally, Nichtern draws upon the demands of his own family history and the film's character the Grandson to explore the dynamics of "the last frontier of awakening," a reference to his teacher Chogyam Trungpa's claim that it's possible to be enlightened everywhere except around your family. With The Dharma of "The Princess Bride" in hand, we can set out on the path to contemporary Buddhist enlightenment with the most important relationships in our lives.

Ethan Nichtern is a senior teacher in the Shambala Buddhist school and the author of One City: A Declaration of Interdependence and The Journey Home: A Modern Study of the Buddhist Way. He's also the creator of the Interdependence Project, a non-profit dedicated to secular Buddhist research in the areas of transformative activism, mindful arts and media projects, and Western psychology. Since 2002, Nichtern has been teaching meditation and Buddhist studies seminars and retreats all throughout the United States. He is based in the city of New York.

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ISBN 13	9780865477766
ISBN 10	0865477760
Title	The Dharma of the Princess Bride
Author	Ethan Nichtern
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	North Point Press
Year published	2017-09-12
Number of pages	288
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