How can understanding our Buddha Nature help us be happier and more content? The Buddhist texts talk about this part of us that is already enlightened, content and totally devoid of suffering. But how do we get in touch with it? First we need to understand what it is. Lama Marut gives us a clear and down to earth explanation of what this Buddha nature is, which is the first step on the path to realizing it in our daily lives.

Lama Marut (a.k.a. Brian K. Smith) is extensively trained in the spiritual traditions of India and Tibetan Buddhism. He holds a Ph.D. 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 lived as a Buddhist monk for eight years and has served for the past fifteen years as a spiritual teacher to students around the world. Lama Marut is currently the Spiritual Director of 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 (Beyond Words, 2012). With his unique mixture of erudition and earthiness, intensity and humor, conviction and openness, Lama Marut’s message is easily accessible and life changing.

'Finding the Buddha Within'. This public teaching from Venerable Sumati Marut at the Three Jewels Community in Singapore Dec 07, 2012. It explores "Buddha Nature" as described in Maitreya’s Uttara Tantra.

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