Online – Emily Dickinson & Dr. Seuss Walk into an Ashram
With Dean Sluyter and Lama Willa Blythe Baker
April 24, 2022
A Conversation with Dean Sluyter, author of the new book The Dharma Bum’s Guide to Western Literature.
This is the online component of this hybrid event. For the in-person component, click here.
10:00 am – 12:00 pm ET
What if Moby-Dick, Huckleberry Finn, the slave narrative of Frederick Douglass — all the books you read (or were supposed to read) in English 101 — turned out to be Dharma gates? Join Dean Sluyter as he discusses his new book The Dharma Bum’s Guide to Western Literature: Finding Nirvana in the Classics. Event will include a reading, interview with the author, and a book signing.
Zoom link — The Zoom link will be sent two days before the retreat to all those registered by then. Please contact the registrar on Saturday if you haven’t received the link. If you register after that date, you’ll receive the link shortly after submitting your registration. If you don’t see an email from Natural Dharma Registrar or Wonderwell Mountain Refuge, it may have mistakenly been sent to your spam folder. It may help if you put the sending address of our booking program in your Contacts: register+wonderwellrefuge@retreat.guru.
Closed captioning is available on all online offerings.
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About the Teachers
Dean Sluyter
Dean Sluyter (pronounced “slighter”) has taught natural approaches to meditation and awakening since 1970, from elite prep schools to maximum-security prisons. His six books include two Nautilus Award winners, Natural Meditation: A Guide to Effortless Meditative Practice and The Dharma Bum’s Guide to Western Literature: Finding Nirvana in the Classics. Publishers Weekly has called his […]
Learn more about Dean SluyterLama Willa Blythe Baker
Lama Willa Blythe Baker, Ph.D. is the Founder of Natural Dharma Fellowship in Boston, MA and its retreat center Wonderwell Mountain Refuge in Springfield, NH. She was authorized as a dharma teacher and lineage holder in the Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism after twelve years of monastic training and two consecutive three-year retreats. She also […]
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