A Spiritual Renegade's Guide to the Good Life

For Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike, a provocative yet compassionate guide using a series of insightful lessons, meditations, and exercises designed to incite a fresh take on our quest for happiness and the good life.This honest, fearless, and often humorous manifesto functions as a practical and achievable (if not radical and revolutionary) blueprint for creating and sustaining happiness in an age of consumerism, self-absorption, and stress. Lama Marut's message connects with a broad range of readers of all ages, cultures, religious and non-religious backgrounds. A Spiritual Renegade's Guide to the Good Life incorporates Microsoft tags within each chapter to give the reader bonus video material, as well as action plans designed to incite true, unpackaged happiness. This book is bound to disrupt your suffering, disturb your dissatisfaction, and elicit a deep-seated contentment. Happiness is in our handswe only need to shake off our inertia and incite it!

Lama Marut is an ordained Buddhist monk, a university professor, a surfer, and a motorcycle enthusiast. With a unique mixture of erudition and earthiness, conviction and openness, he offers practical, honest, and sensible advice that is accessible to all-from the irreverent to the devout.