Buddhist Lessons in "The Princess Bride"

Movie poster for The Princess Bride
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Shambhala Buddhist teacher Ethan Nichtern says “Almost everything I know about relationships I learned over the past 30 years of doing two things that seem to have very little to do with each other: loving The Princess Bride and practicing Buddhism.” The movie was only modestly successful when it was released in 1987, but in 2016 was inducted into the National Film Registry, being deemed as "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant." In Nichtern's new book,  The Dharma of the Princess Bride:  What the Coolest Fairy Tale of Our Time Can Teach Us About Buddhism and Relationships, he says,  “an abnormally large percentage of humans between the ages of 2 and 200 now revere, or at the very least respect, this movie.” His book includes all the “teachings and experiences that have been useful to me while studying relationships and loving this movie.”