It couldn’t be doing better with women readers if I’d titled it Girls Have Kooties. That’s my plan.īTW, women love Buddhism for Dudes. Abiding happiness is living, and then dying, with a sense of purpose, love in your heart, and a smile on your face. Oh, sure, I get a case of the red-ass every now and then, but I am a genuinely contented dude. I’m not just selling a book about Buddhism, I’m saying that with a little knowledge and a little effort, you can be happy, as happy as me. It’s available in bookstores and through, Barnes and Noble, and many others, as a fit-in-your-back-pocket paperback, and as an e-book. Right now Amazon has it on sale for twenty percent off.
It’s called Buddhism for Dudes: A Jarhead’s Field Guide to Mindfulness, published by Wisdom Publications, Inc., and distributed by Simon and Schuster. Stribling and his wife make their home in Louisville, Kentucky. Since 1991 he has worked as a case manager for disabled, impoverished, homeless and criminal populations. Now everything I learned is in a book you can read in a few hours, and you can sit wherever you want. Heres the guys bio: Gerry Stribling was born into a military family and served in the Marine Corps in the 1960s and early 1970s. Risking butt splinters for half a year, little did I realize that my volunteer teaching job in the jungle would result in understanding the secret of happiness. I could barely manage to keep my fat American ass perched on the torturous little seat for many long hours over the six months I studied literally at the feet of the monks in the fragrant jungles of Sri Lanka. There is no comfortable place to sit in a Buddhist monastery. Something you might find in a third world preschool. SHARING THE BUDDHA’S WISDOM SO PEOPLE CAN UNDERSTAND ITĪ small wooden bench, only twelve inches tall and wide, and maybe eighteen inches long.
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