The Abide Guide. Living Like Lebowski

228 Pages·2011·2.09 MB·English

by  Oliver Benjamin

Table of Contents

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
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