The Abide Guide
Living Like Lebowski
1st Edition
Published on 10. February 2022
258 pages
978-1-56975-995-0 (ISBN)
Description
The Dude abides... and you can too, with the Seven Spiritual Laws of Taking it Easy and other Lebowski-level wisdom.
When you seek salvation from this stressed out, uptight world, there's only one man to go to for guidance-the Dude. At once helpful, funny and profound (like The Big Lebowskiitself), this survival guide from the founders of the Church of the Latter-Day Dude and their top disciples shows how to be as Dude-like as the Dude (well, almost):
.Secrets of sacred Dudeist practices
.The Seven Spiritual Laws of Taking it Easy
.Great Dudes who changed the world (without really trying)
.New feminist philosophy for special ladies
.The Way of the Dude applied to politics, ethics, and finances
.A twelve-step program for personal dudevolution
.The science of really tying your room together
All this and a lot more what-have-you. So the next time life throws you a gutterball, just pick up this book and ask, "What Would the Dude Do?" It's your answer for everything.
When you seek salvation from this stressed out, uptight world, there's only one man to go to for guidance-the Dude. At once helpful, funny and profound (like The Big Lebowskiitself), this survival guide from the founders of the Church of the Latter-Day Dude and their top disciples shows how to be as Dude-like as the Dude (well, almost):
.Secrets of sacred Dudeist practices
.The Seven Spiritual Laws of Taking it Easy
.Great Dudes who changed the world (without really trying)
.New feminist philosophy for special ladies
.The Way of the Dude applied to politics, ethics, and finances
.A twelve-step program for personal dudevolution
.The science of really tying your room together
All this and a lot more what-have-you. So the next time life throws you a gutterball, just pick up this book and ask, "What Would the Dude Do?" It's your answer for everything.
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Oliver Benjamin is the founder of The Church of the Latter-Day Dude, better known as Dudeism - a religion with over 600,000 ordained "Dudeist Priests" worldwide. He wrote and illustrated The Tao of the Dudeand The Dude De Ching, compiled and edited Lebowski 101and co-wrote The Abide Guide,a Dudeist self help book. He is also a travel writer (The Outsider's Guide to Thailand), and a novelist (Holy Shit!). Unpublished novels include Big American Breakfastand Abyssinia. You can find him at his websites: http://oliverbenjamin.net; http://dudeism.com; and http://dudespaper.comIn addition to serving as Dudeism's Arch Dudeship, Dwayne Eutsey is a writer/editor who has more years of experience practicing his craft than he'd care to admit. Across the sands of time, his editorial career in publishing has helped Dwayne feed the monkey (more or less) and has allowed him to work on a book about Great Dude from History Mark Twain's unconventional religious views.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- I - Innerductions
- IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE DUDE WAY. . .
- THE WHOLE DURN DUDEIST COMEDY
- Pre-Ramble
- What the Fuck Are We Blathering About?
- The Dudeist Frame of Reference
- The Abide Guide
- THE DUDE TESTAMENT
- All I Need to Know I Learned from Watching The Big Lebowski
- The Lebowski Liturgy: Lessons for Living Like Lebowski
- II - Wiser Fellers Than Ourselves-Dudeist History
- GREAT DUDES IN HISTORY
- Jesus and the Buddha: A Pair of Diggable Dudes
- Lao-Tzu: It's Your Thing, Tao What You Wanna Do
- Heraclitus and Epicurus: Life's All Fluxed Up, So Enjoy the Ups and Downs
- Emily Dickinson: It's Your Roll, Dude
- Mark Twain: American Idle
- Bob Marley: Rasta Far Out
- Georgia O'Keeffe and Diane di Prima: Strongly Vaginal Artists
- Wavy Gravy: Saint Misbehavin'
- Jeff Bridges: He's The Dude, Man. That's What You Call Him
- THE BOOK OF REVOLUTIONS - Dudeist Prophecy
- Mayan Is Not the Preferred Nomenclature. Meso-American, Please
- Our Revelation Is Not Over
- The Big Lebowski and the Three R's of Prophecy
- DUDEIST MOVEMENTS - Dudeism Down Through the Ages
- THE AXIAL AGE 800-200 BCE
- SUFISM 7TH CENTURY CE-PRESENT
- TROUBADOURS 12TH-13TH CENTURIES
- ROMANTICISM 18TH-20TH CENTURIES
- THE LUDDITES EARLY 18TH CENTURY
- TRANSCENDENTALISM 19TH CENTURY
- UTOPIANS 19TH CENTURY
- HUMANISM 20TH CENTURY
- THE DIGGERS 1960s
- SLOW MOVEMENT 1980s-PRESENT
- CREATING A MORE DUDE-OCRATIC SOCIETY - The Politics of the Dude
- "The '90s Are the '60s Standing on Their Head" -Wavy Gravy
- Give Me Liberty or.Hell, Lost My Train of Thought
- Student for a Dudeist Society
- Quest for the Dude's Uncompromised Port Huron Draft
- A Duder World Is Possible
- CINEMA VERTE - Stoner Films and The Big Lebowski
- What Makes a Stoner Movie?
- A Stoner Movie Frame of Reference
- The Grandfather (or Big Bambuski) of Stoner Films
- The Big Lebowski: Stoner Flick or Not?
- Abiding in a Universe That Tends to Unfold as It Should
- SUBJECTS LIKE WOMEN - Dudeist Feminism
- 1. What do you think the philosophy of Dudeism can offer modern women?
- 2. Do you think the feminist tradition is at odds with Dudeism, or are they ...
- 3. Would it be harder for a woman to live her life like the Dude?
- 4. Nominees for our Great Dudes in History are almost all male. Why do you ...
- 5. Is The Big Lebowski more critical of traditional male roles or traditional ...
- 6. What is your feeling about Maude, the film's heroine? Is she admirable or not?
- What about the Dude? Would you ever pair up with someone like him?
- 8. What changes would you like to see in Dudeism to make it appeal more to women?
- 9. The spiritual state of Dudeness is called "abiding." What techniques do you ...
- III - Making It to Practice-Dudeist Lifestyle and Techniques
- SELF-HELP CHOPPERIN' IN - The Dudeism Helping to Abide Movement (DHAM)
- The Seven Spiritual Laws of Takin' 'Er Easy
- Fuggedaboud the Funny Shtuff
- Limberal Thinking
- Ironic Jeff
- The Road Less Rambled
- The Power of Not Now
- DUDERINOS UNANIMOUS - A 12-Step Program for Personal Dudevolution
- 1. Admit that the whole world has gone crazy. We may be powerless over it. But ...
- 2. Believe there is a Dude Way to the universe.
- 3. Be determined to follow the Dude Way. And to follow it further on down the trail.
- 4. Where's the meaning, Lebowski? It's down there somewhere, take another look.
- 5. Say, "Fuck it." That's your answer for everything.
- 6. Take long baths and meditate on your rug.
- 7. What in God's holy name are they blathering about? That's just like their ...
- 8. Be Dude to everyone you meet.
- 9. Be there, man.
- 10. Stop making illiteral connections.
- 11. Adhere to a strict drug regimen to keep your mind limber.
- 12. Spread the Dude word.
- DUDEITATION - Just Drop in to See What Condition Your Condition Is In
- THIS AGGRESSION WILL NOT STAND - Dude-Jitsu, the Dudeist Art of Self-Defense
- Bruce Lee: A Brother Dudeist?
- You Take the Wu Wei, and I'll Take the Dude Way
- Pacifism Is Not Something to Hide Behind
- The Art of Dude-Jitsu
- The Big Wu-bowski
- Practicing Dude-Jitsu
- The Dude's No Mind
- SOME KIND OF YOGA - A Natural, Zesty Exercise
- The Dudeist Some Kind of Yoga Poses (Asanas)
- THANKIE - The Power of Dudeiversal Energy
- 1. Belly Handles
- 2. Go With the Yin and Yang Flow
- 3. Making It to Practice
- 4. Further Uses of Thankie
- FUNGIN' SHWAY - The Dudeist Science of Really Tying Your Room Together
- The John
- The Rug
- The Bar
- Sofa, So Good
- Bedrock and Roll
- Tying Things Up
- DUDE ECONOMICS
- EPILOGUE
- ABOUT THE AUTHORS
- Copyright Page
