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  • Harold Ramis' 'Five-Minute Buddhist' Fold-out Primer
  • Harold Ramis' 'Five-Minute Buddhist' Fold-out Primer
  • Harold Ramis' 'Five-Minute Buddhist' Fold-out Primer
  • Harold Ramis' 'Five-Minute Buddhist' Fold-out Primer

Harold Ramis' "Five-Minute Buddhist" Fold-out Primer

Item Number
112
Estimated Value
150 USD
Sold
120 USD to Dpagemedia
Number of Bids
3  -  Bid History

Item Description

Harold Ramis of Ghostbuster fame has provided this signed copy of his self-authored, Five-Minute Buddhist "primer." We'll leave it to Shambhala Sun interviewer Perry Garfinkel to describe the primer's purpose in this July 2009 article:

"Before I left home for Shreveport, I received a surprise from Ramis - a laminated red page folded in three, with lists on it. 'The idea was to present a simple Buddhist primer on something the size of a Chinese takeout menu,' he wrote in an accompanying note. Instead of a guide to putting together a dinner by choosing, say, the five spice tofu from column A and the egg drop soup from column B, this menu was called The Five-Minute Buddhist. It listed the five aggregates, the four noble truths, the eightfold path, the seven factors of enlightenment, the four sublime states, the five hindrances, and the five precepts, ending with a quote from Thich Nhat Hanh: 'The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth, dwelling deeply in the present moment, feeling fully alive.'"

Four Ramis films - Animal House, Caddyshack, Ghostbusters, and Groundhog Day - are on the American Film Institute's "100 Years, 100 Laughs" list. His Ocean Pictures production offices are upstairs from his favorite Greek restaurant in Highland Park, north of Chicago.

Dimensions: 8.5" x 11" trifold

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Harold Ramis