Dean Sluyter

Dean Sluyter (pronounced “slighter”) has led meditation workshops and retreats since 1970, at venues ranging from Ivy League colleges to maximum-security prisons. From 1977 to 2010, he taught English at the Pingry School in New Jersey. Sluyter has trained with Eastern and Western sages in many traditions, including Vajrayana (Tibetan) Buddhism, Advaita Vedanta, and Bhakti Yoga. His five previous books include Cinema Nirvana, The Zen Commandments, and Natural Meditation. Sluyter now lives in Santa Monica, California, where he sings with the Threshold Choir, sits with dying people, and happily zips about on his Vespa.