Cinema Nirvana
Enlightenment Lessons From The Movies
Sluyter, Dean
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
Movie fans and spiritual seekers, unite! In Cinema Nirvana, meditation teacher and award-winning film critic Dean Sluyter illuminates the hidden enlightenment teachings of Casablanca, Jaws, The Graduate, The Godfather, Memento, and ten other classic films, revealing spiritual wisdom in everything from 007s secret weapons to the colors of the Seven Dwarfs eyes.
So grab your popcorn, sit back, and prepare to have your mind opened. Cinema Nirvana is a funny but wise, practical but wildly entertaining guide to finding enlightenmentone movie at a time.
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Dean Sluyter has one of the freshest voices in spiritual writing today. From the common ore of pop culture, he extracts the gleaming diamonds of dharma-wisdom." Lama Surya Das, author of Awakening the Buddha Within
If you spliced together DNA from Quentin Tarantino and the Dalai Lama, youd get Dean Sluyter and hed write this amazing book. Michael Gelb, author of How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci
Entertaining and thoughtful in turn, Cinema Nirvana compels you to watch the movies in the way a buddha might see them. Stephen Batchelor, author of Living with the Devil
Sluyter is the movie guru I have longed for. Virtually every page contains jaw-dropping insights and laugh-out-loud surprises. Lama John Makransky, Professor of Buddhism and Comparative Theology, Boston College
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 1400049741
ISBN(13-digit): 9781400049745
Copyright: 2005
Dewey Decimal: 791.43/653
Library of Congress: 2004014191
Book Publisher: Random House Inc
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 309
Paper Weight (lb): .7 lb
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