Bernie Glassman

Zen master Bernie Glassman compares Jeff Bridges's iconic role in "The""Big Lebowski "to a Lamed-Vavnik: one of the men in Jewish mysticism who "are simple and unassuming, and so good that, on account of them, God lets the world go on." 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. 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, "The Dude and the Zen Master "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.

In "Infinite Circle," one of America''s most distinctive Zen teachers takes a back-to-basics approach to Zen. Glassman illuminates three key teachings of Zen Buddhism, offering line-by-line commentary in clear, direct language: "The Heart Sutra: " the Buddha''s essential discourse on emptiness, a central sutra of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition. "The Identity of Relative and Absolute": an eighth-century poem by Shih-t''ou His-ch''ien, a key text of the Soto Zen school. The Zen precepts: the rules of conduct for laypeople and monks. His commentaries are based on workshops he gave as Abbot of the Zen Community of New York, and they contain within them the principles that became the foundation for the Greyston Mandala of community development organizations and the Zen Peacemaker Order.

El maestro zen BERNIE GLASSMAN compara el legendario personaje de JEFF BRIDGES en la película El gran Lebowski con uno de los escasos hombres justos de los que habla el Talmud: uno de esos hombres del misticismo judio que son tan simples, humildes y buenos que Dios permite que el mundo siga adelante gracias a ellos. Su colega Jeff Bridges expresa lo mismo, pero de otra manera. Para el, lo maravilloso de El Nota (The Dude) es que siempre prefiere dar un abrazo antes que un puñetazo.El oscarizado Jeff Bridges y su maestro, el roshi Bernie Glassman, han sido intimos amigos durante mas de una decada. El Nota (The Dude) y el maestro Zen es una obra inspiradora y divertida que recoge sus reflexiones sobre la vida, la risa y las peliculas con un encanto y bonhomia que nunca dejan de iluminar y entretener. De principio a fin, su notable humanismo nos recuerda la importancia de hacer el bien en un mundo dificil.