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.
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The Dharma Bum’s Guide to Western Literature
Finding Nirvana in the Classics
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction: Let’s Take Our Shoes Off
- 1. William Blake: Eternity’s Sunrise
- 2. F. Scott Fitzgerald • the Great Gatsby: Unutterable Visions
- 3. Frederick Douglass • the Slave Narrative: Tribulation
- 4. Thoreau, Emerson & Friends: Future Buddhas of America
- 5. Dr. Seuss • the Cat in the Hat: Have No Fear
- 6. Virginia Woolf • to the Lighthouse: Plenty for Everybody
- 7. Ernest Hemingway • a Farewell to Arms: Pebbles and Boulders
- 8. Samuel Taylor Coleridge • Kubla Khan: The Milk of Paradise
- 9. John Donne • a Valediction: Forbidding Mourning: Let Us Melt
- 10. Mark Twain • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Betwixt Two Things
- 11. John Keats: Still
- 12. Edwin Abbott Abbott • Flatland: Upward, Not Northward
- 13. William Shakespeare • Macbeth: What’s Your Hurry?
- 14. Samuel Beckett • Waiting for Godot: Thanks for Nothing
- 15. Rodgers & Hammerstein • Oklahoma!: OK
- 16. Gerard Manley Hopkins: Flame Out
- 17. Toni Morrison • the Bluest Eye: Love Nonetheless
- 18. Herman Melville • Moby-Dick: Whiteness
- 19. Emily Dickinson: I’m Nobody
- 20. Walt Whitman: I Am Large
- 21. J. D. Salinger: Ah, Buddy
- 22. Key, Rogers & Franklin • Three Anthems: Look Again
- Acknowledgments
- Selected Bibliography
- Illustration Credits
- Index
- About the Author
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