The Dude and the Zen Master

<b>The <i>New York Times</i> bestseller from Academy award-winning actor Jeff Bridges and Zen leader and author of <i>Bearing Witness</i>, Bernie Glassman</b>.<br> <p>Zen master Bernie Glassman compares Jeff Bridges's iconic role in <i>The</i> <i>Big Lebowski </i>to a Lamed-Vavnik: one of the men in Jewish mysticism who &quot;are simple and unassuming, and so good that, on account of them, God lets the world go on.&quot; His buddy Jeff puts it another way. The wonderful thing about the Dude, he says, is that he'd always rather hug it out than slug it out.<br> </p><p>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, <i>The Dude and the Zen Master </i>captures their freewheeling dialogue about life, laughter, and the movies with a charm and bonhomie that never fail to enlighten and entertain. Throughout, their remarkable humanism reminds us of the importance of doing good in a difficult world.</p>