The Dude and the Zen Master by Jeff Bridges

The Dude and the Zen Master by Jeff Bridges

The perfect gift for fans of The Big Lebowski, Jeff Bridges's The Dude, and anyone who could use more Zen in their lives.

Zen Master Bernie Glassman compares Jeff Bridges's iconic role in The Big Lebowski to a Lamed-Vavnik: one of the men in Jewish mysticism who are simple and unassuming, and so good that on account of them God lets the world go on. Jeff puts it another way. The wonderful thing about the Dude is that he'd always rather hug it out than slug it out.

For more than a decade, Academy Award-winning actor Jeff Bridges and his Buddhist teacher, renowned Roshi Bernie Glassman, have been close friends. Inspiring and often hilarious, The Dude and the Zen Master captures their freewheeling dialogue and remarkable humanism in a book that reminds us of the importance of doing good in a difficult world.

Bernie Glassman is a Zen teacher and Taizan Maezumi Roshi, the founder of the Zen Center of Los Angeles,'s first dharma heir. He is well-known for fusing Zen practice with social, economic, and educational projects. Instructions to the Chef and Bearing Witness: A Zen Master's Teaching in Creating Peace are two of his other works.

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ISBN 13	9780399161643
ISBN 10	0399161643
Title	The Dude and the Zen Master
Author	Jeff Bridges
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2013-01-08
Number of pages	288
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.