The Dude and the Zen Master
Book Details
Author(s)
Bridges, Jeff
Publisher
Plume
ISBN / ASIN
0142180521
ISBN-13
9780142180525
Availability
In Stock.
Sales Rank
#65,450
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
Description
[A] truly incredible book about two friends talking about the good life. Huffington Post
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.
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.
