The Dharma of the Princess Bride: What the Coolest Fairy Tale of Our Time Can Teach Us About Buddhism and Relationships - Ethan Nichtern
Category: Self-help
Narrator: Ethan Nichtern
Tags: Self-help, Spiritual & Religious
An engagingly contemporary approach to Buddhism - through the lens of an iconic film and its memorable characters, Humorous yet spiritually rigorous, drawing from pop culture and from personal experience, The Dharma of The Princess Bride teaches us how to understand and navigate our most important personal relationships from a 21st-century Buddhist perspective., Friendship. Romance. Family. These are the three areas Ethan Nichtern delves into, taking as departure points the indelible characters - Westley, Fezzik, Vizzini, Count Rugen, Princess Buttercup, and others from Rob Reiners perennially popular film - as he also draws lessons from his own life and his work as a meditation teacher. Nicthern devotes the first section of the book to exploring the dynamics of friendship. Why do people become friends? What can we learn from the sufferings of Inigo Montoya and Fezzik?, Next, he leads us through all the phases of illusion and disillusion we encounter in our romantic pursuits, providing
