The shared center — held across the tradition
Taking it easy is a moral position.
Not laziness and not resignation. Dudeism holds that most striving makes its object worse, that the demand to be productive is a recent and local superstition, and that refusing it takes more nerve than complying.
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The philosophy is old; only the packaging is 1998.
Dudeism claims descent from Laozi, Epicurus, the Zen masters, Montaigne and Whitman, and treats The Big Lebowski as a restatement rather than a source. Its founder makes this argument at length and it is the reason the church resists being read as a film-fan club.
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