Of the Beginning of the Beginning of the Beginning
Revisiting Revolver, the newly remixed Beatles album, with a fresh pair of dharma ears
Dean Sluyter
Dean Sluyter is a teacher, Buddhist prison chaplain, and sometime film critic. He is the author of The Dharma Bum’s Guide to Western Literature: Finding Nirvana in the Classics.
Dharma Lessons from The Catcher in the Rye’s Holden Caulfield
Adapted from The Dharma Bum’s Guide to Western Literature
Finding Nirvana in the Classics
In The Dharma Bum’s Guide to Western Literature, meditation teacher Dean Sluyter unveils the dharma lessons within different Western classics
On the Voices in Your Head
Where the new film Inside Out converges with and diverges from Buddhist teachings.
In-Body Experience
The simplicity of sensation
Inaction Film
Getting serious with silence
Hair on Fire
The films of Ellen Bruno
The Shadow Knows
Kurosawa and the insubstantial self
Midlife Splices
Documenting no-self
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