The Dharma Bums Guide to Western Lit..., Dean Sluyter
The Dharma Bums Guide to Western Lit..., Dean Sluyter
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The Dharma Bum's Guide to Western Literature
Finding Nirvana in the Classics

Author: Dean Sluyter

Narrator: Dean Sluyter

Unabridged: 12 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/29/2022

Synopsis

HOW 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.

About Dean Sluyter

Dean Sluyter (pronounced “slighter”) has spent a lifetime learning authentic methods of natural meditation from Eastern and Western sages and sharing them with thousands of students, including prisoners, tech innovators, filmmakers, high school students, and entrepreneurs. He has completed numerous retreats and pilgrimages in Tibet, India, Nepal, and Europe, and for decades has led workshops throughout the United States.

Reviews

Goodreads review by D.B. on November 27, 2022

Easily the most marvelous book I've read this year. Ordered it on a whim after hearing the author speak on a podcast. Wonderfully written, profoundly insightful and funny. Books, plays, poems I enjoyed at school, but couldn't say I really understood, are revealed to spark and fizzle with meaning as......more

Goodreads review by Mia on September 20, 2022

My best teacher was my high school lit teacher. She had a remarkable way of sharing her profound appreciation of literature so that we became better readers and marveled at the magic of good writing along with her. Dean Sluyter reminds me of her. Each of his analyses has brought the selected work to......more

Goodreads review by Alice on April 05, 2022

A FLAT OUT FUN RIDE!! If you pick up a copy of Dean Sluyter’s Dharma Bum’s Guide to Western Literature you will be in for a fun ride. As Sluyter says in the introduction, “We’ll let excitement be our guide…like surf bums following the waves we’ll be Dharma bums following the light wherever it leads u......more

Goodreads review by Annette on April 04, 2022

In a time when life feels so upside down, Dean Sluyter inspires us to trust something beyond what we see or what we think we already know - to willfully turn "with" the canvas and allow gravity and grace to reveal something new: the pigments of awareness suspended in emotion … in our language, in ou......more

Goodreads review by Maryn on April 08, 2022

Dean Sluyter is the high school lit teacher you never had, funny, accessible, wise, and holding the door open for you to a world you do not yet know and, so early on, barely suspect. He invites you through that door with kindness and light. His book is a joy, what happens when eastern philosophy mar......more

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