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    Celebrity Sadhana: Or How to Meditate With a Hammer
    Celebrity Sadhana: Or How to Meditate With a Hammer
    Celebrity Sadhana: Or How to Meditate With a Hammer
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    Celebrity Sadhana: Or How to Meditate With a Hammer

    By Vijay R. Nathan

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    Celebrity Sadhana, Or How to Meditate with a Hammer is a series of poems aimed to imagine meditative moments from the 'sadhana', spiritual practice, of Hollywood's elite. Building on the wisdom traditions of the East to bring the hammer down on complacent notions about what it means to be spiritual in today's world. The author's previous work includes: Escape from Samsara, a collection of free-verse poems, that Kirkus Review found " genuine and compelling, blending spiritual questioning with an engaging humor and using language that is by turns down-to-earth and lushly suggestive" .
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateOct 1, 2018
    ISBN9781543944396
    Celebrity Sadhana: Or How to Meditate With a Hammer

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      Celebrity Sadhana - Vijay R. Nathan

      ~

      Please note although the author has drawn from celebrity news stories, internet chatter and online searches about celebrities, and references actual movies and celebrity biographies, all these are used fictitiously and with the intention of satirizing and meditating on our collective cultural fascination with fame.

      ~

      © Vijay Ramanathan 2018

      All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

      ISBN (Print Edition): 978-1-54394-438-9

      ISBN (eBook Edition): 978-1-54394-439-6

      Contents

      I

      PATHWAYS TO THE BREEZE

      The celebrity sadhana you can’t miss

      That special kind of crazy

      Natalie Portman recites ‘he will not divide us’

      They walk the line

      Joaquin Phoenix receives an amber alert

      A cool breeze over the mountains

      The supernova seduction plan

      A Shia Labeouf dream

      Jodie Foster & Sacha Baron Cohen consume incredible edibles

      Buddha Tara emanates to Joaquin Phoenix

      II

      THE VEIL BETWEEN

      The celebrity renunciation you won’t believe

      Sacha Baron Cohen on the rocks

      A Joaquin Phoenix dream

      The many faces of Winona Ryder

      Sacha Baron Cohen Performs as Divine Madman Drukpa Kunley

      Joaquin Phoenix searches for ‘Satori’

      A Winona Ryder Dream

      The divine madman returns

      Natalie Portman listens to Tori Amos

      Somewhere in the Mojave

      Shia Labeouf listens to Radiohead

      III

      HOW TO MEDITATE WITH A HAMMER

      The Celebrity Confrontation That Will Shock You

      Somewhere in the Mojave

      The Natalie Portman body poem

      Somewhere in the Mojave

      Flowers on the wall

      Glimpses of Winona Ryder’s ass

      The hammer speaks

      Jodie Foster in the rye

      Shia Labeouf feeds stray dogs

      I

      PATHWAYS TO THE BREEZE

      "In many of the [Buddhist] scriptures it says that all phenomena are like

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