The Dharma Bum's Guide to Western Literature
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The Dharma Bum's Guide to Western Literature

Finding Nirvana in the Classics

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The Dharma Bum's Guide to Western Literature

Finding Nirvana in the Classics

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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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Publisher
New World Library
Year
2022
ISBN
9781608687701
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism for Comparative Literature
Index
Literature

Table of contents

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