To our Western eyes the Dude of The Big Lebowski (Jeff Bridges) looks like a slobbish, lazy, hippie hold-over, decades past his prime. [...] In a Buddhist understanding, the Dude is not lazy: he just doesn’t concern himself with unimportant things, or at least important things in the Western sense. Money seems of little value to the Dude. He isn’t employed and he doesn’t care to be. He even ultimately resists the temptation of the ransom money. More
To our Western eyes the Dude of The Big Lebowski (Jeff Bridges) looks like a slobbish, lazy, hippie hold-over, decades past his prime. [...] In a Buddhist understanding, the Dude is not lazy: he just doesn’t concern himself with unimportant things, or at least important things in the Western sense. Money seems of little value to the Dude. He isn’t employed and he doesn’t care to be. He even ultimately resists the temptation of the ransom money. 
