num_pages: 288
description: The New York Times bestseller from Academy award-winning actor Jeff Bridges and Zen leader and author of Bearing Witness Bernie Glassman. Zen master Bernie Glassman compares Jeff Bridgess 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. His buddy Jeff puts it another way. The wonderful thing about the Dude he says is that hed always rather hug it out than slug it out. For more than a decade Academy Awardwinning 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 about life laughter and the movies with a charm and bonhomie that never fail to enlighten and entertain. Throughout their remarkable humanism reminds us of the importance of doing good in a difficult world.
language: English
title: The Dude and the Zen Master
publisher: Blue Rider Press