Going Up?
Sublime wisdom in Colson Whitehead’s The Intuitionist
Dean Sluyter
Dean Sluyter is a dharma teacher, prison chaplain, and arts critic. His latest book is The Dharma Bum’s Guide to Western Literature: Finding Nirvana in the Classics.
And He Sat
Dr. Seuss on the sublime virtue of meditation
Down These Mean Streets
Sublime diligence in Raymond Chandler’s hard-boiled detective novel The Big Sleep
Macbeth Flunks the Marshmallow Test
Shakespeare’s insight into sublime patience—and the tragic lack thereof
Clear Light, High Society
Sublime ethics in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway
Of the Beginning of the Beginning of the Beginning
Revisiting Revolver, the newly remixed Beatles album, with a fresh pair of dharma ears
Coming Unscrooged
Sublime generosity in Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol
Of the Beginning of the Beginning of the Beginning
Revisiting Revolver, the newly remixed Beatles album, with a fresh pair of dharma ears
Dharma Lessons from The Catcher in the Rye’s Holden Caulfield
Adapted from The Dharma Bum’s Guide to Western Literature
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