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The Dharma Bum's Guide to Western Literature: Finding Nirvana in the Classics (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781608687695)
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xHOW THE LITERATURE WE LOVE CONVEYS THE AWAKENING WE SEEK
Suppose we could read Hemingway as haiku . . . learn mindfulness from Virginia Woolf and liberation from Frederick Douglass . . . see Dickinson and Whitman as buddhas of poetry, and Huck Finn and Gatsby as seekers of the infinite . . . discover enlightenment teachings in Macbeth, The Catcher in the Rye, Moby-Dick, and The Bluest Eye. Some of us were lucky enough to have one passionate, funny, inspiring English teacher who helped us fall in love with books. Add a lifetime of teaching Dharma -- authentic, traditional approaches to meditation and awakening -- and you get award-winning author Dean Sluyter. With droll humor and irreverent wisdom, he unpacks the Dharma of more than twenty major writers, from William Blake to Dr. Seuss, inspiring readers to deepen their own spiritual life and see literature in a fresh, new way: as a path of awakening.
Author: Dean Sluyter
ISBN-10: 1608687694
ISBN-13: 9781608687695
Publisher: New World Library
Language: English
Published: 03/29/2022
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.80h x 6.00w x 0.80d
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/03/2022
Suppose we could read Hemingway as haiku . . . learn mindfulness from Virginia Woolf and liberation from Frederick Douglass . . . see Dickinson and Whitman as buddhas of poetry, and Huck Finn and Gatsby as seekers of the infinite . . . discover enlightenment teachings in Macbeth, The Catcher in the Rye, Moby-Dick, and The Bluest Eye. Some of us were lucky enough to have one passionate, funny, inspiring English teacher who helped us fall in love with books. Add a lifetime of teaching Dharma -- authentic, traditional approaches to meditation and awakening -- and you get award-winning author Dean Sluyter. With droll humor and irreverent wisdom, he unpacks the Dharma of more than twenty major writers, from William Blake to Dr. Seuss, inspiring readers to deepen their own spiritual life and see literature in a fresh, new way: as a path of awakening.
Author: Dean Sluyter
ISBN-10: 1608687694
ISBN-13: 9781608687695
Publisher: New World Library
Language: English
Published: 03/29/2022
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.80h x 6.00w x 0.80d
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/03/2022
By Dean Sluyter
xDean Sluyter (pronounced "slighter") has led meditation workshops and retreats throughout the US since 1970, at venues ranging from Ivy League colleges to maximum-security prisons. For thirty-three years he taught English and Literature of Enlightenment at the Pingry School. He lives in Santa Monica, California, where he sings with the Threshold Choir, plays old songs on the ukulele, and happily zips about on his Vespa. DeanSluyter.com
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