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Why the Chicken Crossed the Road Other Hidden Enlightenment Teachings from the Buddha to Bebop to Mother Goose
Author: Dean Sluyter, Dean Sluyter
You're invited to join in the seriously playful adventure of "digging the cosmic ordinary"-exploring our own cultural backyard to discover the profound enlightenment teachings hidden there in plain sight. In thirty-three illustrated mini-chapters, meditation teacher Dean Sluyter reveals the startling, sometimes hilarious connections between the ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780874779059
ISBN-10: 0874779057
Publication Date: 2/1998
Pages: 272
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Publisher: Tarcher
Book Type: Paperback
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The great spiritual truths are right under your nose-in the songs, jokes, proverbs, and nursery rhymes you've known all your life. Christ and the Buddha, Sluyter shows us, bring the same good news of cosmic liberation, and so do the Monkees and the Rolling Stones, Bugs Bunny and Alfred E. Neuman. Along the way, Sluyter tells lively stories that incorporate basketball and Sufi dancing, cowboy movies and Sabbath mysticism, bebop saxaphone exercises--some traditional, some home-brewerd--he shows how to apply these enlightenment teachings in our own lives.

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