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Be Nobody
By Lama Marut
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This follow-up to A Spiritual Renegade’s Guide to the Good Life calls for the biggest revolution of all: the overthrow of our obsessive quest to be somebody.
Like boardwalk tourists poking their faces through two-dimensional cutouts of the muscle man and bathing beauty, we are all desperately trying to be somebody, to be “special.” No one wants to be a loser, a small fry, a big zero.
But maybe we’ve got it all wrong.
With an edgy tone and radical perspective, Lama Marut shows that the quest to distinguish ourselves is the true cause of our dissatisfaction, and it continually leaves us feeling isolated and alone. Drawing from the spiritual truism that only by losing the self can we discover our real potential, Be Nobody provides guidance, actions, and simple meditations to help you lay down the heavy burden of trying to be somebody—without requiring you to live in a monastery or retire to a cave in the Himalayas. When we vacate ourselves, we will finally have the freedom to find true fulfillment.
So stop narrating your life and start living it. Be nobody.
Like boardwalk tourists poking their faces through two-dimensional cutouts of the muscle man and bathing beauty, we are all desperately trying to be somebody, to be “special.” No one wants to be a loser, a small fry, a big zero.
But maybe we’ve got it all wrong.
With an edgy tone and radical perspective, Lama Marut shows that the quest to distinguish ourselves is the true cause of our dissatisfaction, and it continually leaves us feeling isolated and alone. Drawing from the spiritual truism that only by losing the self can we discover our real potential, Be Nobody provides guidance, actions, and simple meditations to help you lay down the heavy burden of trying to be somebody—without requiring you to live in a monastery or retire to a cave in the Himalayas. When we vacate ourselves, we will finally have the freedom to find true fulfillment.
So stop narrating your life and start living it. Be nobody.
Author
Lama Marut
Lama Marut (a.k.a. Brian K. Smith) is extensively trained in the spiritual traditions of India and Tibetan Buddhism. He holds a PhD in comparative religion and taught for over two decades in the academic world, first at Columbia University and later at the University of California, where he retired as professor emeritus in 2004. He has served for the past fifteen years as a spiritual teacher to students around the world, and is currently the spiritual director for eight "Middle Way Centers" located in North America, Australia, and Singapore. In addition to several scholarly studies and translations based on Sanskrit materials, he is the author of the popular and award-winning book A Spiritual Renegade’s Guide to the Good Life. With his unique mixture of erudition and earthiness, intensity and humor, conviction and openness, Lama Marut’s message is easily accessible and life-changing.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5???? two thumbs up, very insightful, thought provoking. Loved it. Peace.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5it encourages me to be more human in my everyday encounters, thanks
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5awesome book
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5In not done reading the book yet but I find the choice of words used in some sentences to be a bit of a jargon. You really need to have a dictionary with you in reading this.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I couldn't feel comfortable reading this book as it's not reflect it's title! Why the author is saying that the religions limits in shells and that have to be set free while he only studied the christianity and buddhism? One man said to me, religions are like clubs you enter to follow it's rules not to change them.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5such a amazing app ever!!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5very interesting read, thought provoking and hitting close to home.
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