“While reading this book, thinking about this book, and trying his suggestions I have begun to experience what life is like when one puts 'the horse before the cart.' I am experiencing a lot more time and a lot more love, and I am extremely grateful. It's brilliant.”
—Mary McDonnel
Academy Award nominated actress for Dances With Wolves
“Lama Marut knows how to describe concepts clearly and to make a persuasive case while entertaining his readers. His chapter on forgiveness is a particularly compelling gem of brevity. This provocative, "hip" guide (there's a motorcycle on the cover) doesn't weasel out on the importance of living a "morally pure life" to achieve happiness.”
—Molly Lyons
Publishers Weekly
“This book is so good I wish I had written it myself! Seriously, you really should try to overcome your fear of bliss and start living the way Lama Marut suggests, desperately seeking yourself—your real, deep down, joyful being indivisible from the infinite love energy of the unreasonably free happiness that is the reality of this universe! Cannot recommend this delightful book enough. It should accompany your day to day from now on, if you’re smart and lucky!”
—Robert Thurman
Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Buddhist Studies, Columbia University, Co-founder of Tibet House US, author of Why the Dalai Lama Matters
“Lama Marut skillfully and eloquently describes how happiness naturally emerges as a reward of authentic spiritual practice. A marvelous guide for those choosing to walk on joy’s path.”
—Michael Bernard Beckwith
author of Spiritual Liberation
“I can think of few teachers of spirituality more capable of offering the profound and rich traditions of Buddhism and the visionary voices of yoga. When you meet Lama Marut you encounter greatness, a place where the heart and mind are one, and the company you keep presents a rare presence that can change your life.”
—Douglas R. Brooks
Author and Professor of Religion, University of Rochester
“Lama Marut is a great teacher, a master. . . . His conviction is palpable. He's not giving us information, he's leading us to self-revelation. That's a different quality of teaching. And his joy in doing it is indescribably fun. . . . He's changed me in just about every way. I'm happy, and I know how to perpetuate that.”
—Lindsay Crouse
Academy Award Nominated Actress
“A Spiritual Renegade's Guide is light and lively, also deeply wise and worth delving into. This practice manual will help us all bring Buddhist principles into daily life, here and now, including forgiveness, gratitude, ethical living, and experiencing for yourself the buoyant joy and happiness of spiritual living. I read and savored it.”
—Lama Surya Das
author of Awakening the Buddha Within
