{"product_id":"9780399161643","title":"The Dude and the Zen Master","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller from Academy award-winning actor Jeff Bridges and Zen leader and author of \u003ci\u003eBearing Witness\u003c\/i\u003e, Bernie Glassman\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Zen master Bernie Glassman compares Jeff Bridges’s iconic role in \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eBig Lebowski \u003c\/i\u003eto 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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Dude and the Zen Master \u003c\/i\u003ecaptures 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blue Rider Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47028091355376,"sku":"9780399161643","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780399161643_p0.jpg?v=1763698365","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780399161643","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}