From the Little Prince to the Big Lebowski: A Modern Myth
Channel: Sat Yoga Institute
Date: 02/02/2019

We screened The Big Lebowski in our weekly movie night at the Ashram recently, which shows you how loose we are about rigid rules of watching only uplifting spiritual films, but we did our best to justify the indulgence in depravity by at least conducting a deep discussion afterward. It was followed the next morning (while we were still hung over) by a climactic teaching from Shunyamurti contextualizing the film in relation to our spiritual practice and explaining how and why we must outgrow our Big Lebowski identifications to abide in union with The Supreme Dude. 

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