A lovely poem composed by the late Bhante Suvanno, Abbot of Lunas Buddhist Hermitage in Kedah, renounced at age 60.
Everybody wants to be a somebody
Nobody knows how to be a nobody
If ever there is a 'somebody'
Who knows how to be a nobody
Then that nobody is a real somebody.
If you ever want to be a nobody
Then follow that somebody
Who already is a 'nobody'
Later, let go of everybody
Even that somebody
Who already is a nobody
Eventually, you will be a real nobody.
Rev Acara Suvanno Maha Thero
1921-11 March 2007
In Memorial
