The Dude De Ching is an interpretation of the Tao Te Ching for followers of Dudeism. This is a brand new version, completely re-written, with a new translation of the Tao Te Ching, and new illustrations. This funny and inspiring book of spiritual lessons will help you take it easy and abide in the face of any gutterballs that are thrown your way. Each verse is followed by the original verse from the Tao Te Ching to help show the similarity between Dudeism and Taoism. Dudeism is an authentic religion with over 300,000 ordained "Dudeist Priests." It is inspired mainly by Taoism and the Coen Brothers' 1998 film The Big Lebowski. Please visit Dudeism at dudeism.com to find out more.

The perfect gift for fans of The Big Lebowski, Jeff Bridges's "The Dude", and anyone who could use more Zen in their lives. Zen Master Bernie Glassman compares Jeff Bridges’s 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.” Jeff puts it another way. “The wonderful thing about the Dude is that he’d always rather hug it out than slug it out.” For more than a decade, Academy Award-winning 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 and remarkable humanism in a book that reminds us of the importance of doing good in a difficult world.

NOTE: This is a new annotated version of the Dudeist classic, containing 81 essays explaining each verse. The Dude De Ching is an interpretation of the Tao Te Ching for followers of Dudeism. This is a brand new version, completely re-written, with a new translation of the Tao Te Ching, and new illustrations. This funny and inspiring book of spiritual lessons will help you take it easy and abide in the face of any gutterballs that are thrown your way. Each verse is followed by the original verse from the Tao Te Ching to help show the similarity between Dudeism and Taoism. Dudeism is an authentic religion with nearly 400,000 ordained "Dudeist Priests." It is inspired mainly by Taoism and the Coen Brothers' 1998 film The Big Lebowski. Please visit Dudeism at dudeism.com to find out more.

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Celebrate the Dude with an abiding look at the philosophy behind The Big Lebowski Is the Dude a bowling-loving stoner or a philosophical genius living the good life? Naturally, it's the latter, and The Big Lebowski and Philosophy explains why. Enlisting the help of great thinkers like Plato and Nietzsche, the book explores the movie's hidden philosophical layers, cultural reflection, and political commentary. It also answers key questions, including: The Dude abides, but is abiding a virtue? Is the Dude an Americanized version of the Taoist way of life? How does The Big Lebowski illustrate the Just War Theory? How does bowling help Donny, Walter, and the Dude oppose nihilism? Yes, the Dude is deep, and so is this book. Don't watch the movie—or go to Lebowski Fest—without it. Explores many of The Big Lebowski's key themes, such as nihilism, war and politics, money and materialism, idealism and morality, history, and more Gives you new perspective on the movie's characters—the Dude, the Big Lebowski, Walter Sobchak, Donny, Maude Lebowski, Bunny Lebowski, and others Helps you appreciate the Coen Brothers classic even more with the insights of Aristotle, Epicurus, Kant, Derrida, and other philosophical heavyweights