Il Drugo e il maestro zen

You know when you walk into the kitchen at a party and there are two stoned guys having a conversation and they're kind of talking about the same thing but really they're just spewing utter nonsense that occasionally lines up? This book is just like that.

Bob Marley once wrote, “We’re jamming / I wanna jam with you, / We’re jamming, jamming / And I hope you like jamming too.” After reading Oscar-winning actor Jeff Bridges and Zen teacher Bernie Glassman’s The Dude and the Zen Master, you’ll know exactly what Marley meant. In fact, you’ll have jammed w Leggi tutto

The Dude and the Zen Master is one of the laziest contrivances of a book I have seen yet. Here's the deal: let's take a moderately beloved cult classic - The Big Lebowski - then pair it up with a cigar-smoking Zen master, who functions here as a self-help guru/beacon of wisdom - Bernie Glassman - an Leggi tutto

Transcriptions of conversations between actor-dude Jeff Bridges and zen master Bernie Glassman. The topics center on living Zen Buddhism, the nature of suffering, nonattachment, enlightenment, etc and they tie their discussions to their real world experiences. The attitude is very Dude (a'la the Big Leggi tutto

The Dude and the Zen Master is a conversation between two very talented and benevolent men. Jeff Bridges is a well-known Oscar-winning actor, performer, songwriter and photographer; and Bernie Glassman is the founder of the Zen Community of New York and a longtime Zen teacher. This dialogue addresse Leggi tutto

this book gets a strong recommendation! it made a deep impact on me and gets a well deserved place among my alltime fav books. especially jeff has made a deep impression on me, with his openness, his kindness, his way to see things, to live and love his life. absolutely great. somehow, i knew bernie Leggi tutto

I thought this would be a cheap cashing-in on Lebowski, forcing links between the character's lazy "zen"-like behavior, but it is actually an extended conversation between the two authors where they reveal and share while discussing zen and its application to real-life situations. It was fun getting Leggi tutto