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.

Be Nobody, Lama Marut, Beyond Words, Paperback, 288 pages, $16.99

Born Brian K. Smith to a second-generation Baptist minister, Lama Marut had a strong interest in spirituality from a very young age, along with a passion for motorcycles, surging, and yoga. After earning his PhD in comparative religion and becoming an ordained Buddhist monk, he worked as a professor at Columbia University and the University of California Riverside and has published three academic books. We recently caught up with Lama Marut as he headed out on his 20-city North American tour for his newest book, A Spiritual Renegade's Guide to the Good Life.

CONTENTS: Be Nobody
	Preface: Don't Give Me That Old-Time Religion!	xv
	Introduction: Living in the iEra	xxv
Part I: Desperately Seeking Somebody
1.	Sticking Our Faces into Carnival Cutouts	3
2.	What Goes Up Must Come Down	29
Part II: Making a Better Somebody Out of Nobody
3.	Clutching at Straws and Chasing Shadows	57
4.	Nobody Makes a Better Somebody Possible	83
Part III: Losing the "Somebody Self"
5.	Being Nobody for Others	119
6.	Going with the Flow	151
Part IV: Everybody Is Nobody
7.	Living as an Ordinary Joe	187
	Acknowledgments	221
	Appendix: Dropping into Your True Nature	223
	Endnotes	231
	Selected Bibliography	243