Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

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Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

Written by: Marvin Casper - editor, John Baker - editor, Chögyam Trungpa, Sakyong Mipham - foreword

Narrated by: Jim Gimian

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In this modern spiritual classic, the Tibetan meditation master Chögyam Trungpa highlights the commonest pitfall to which every aspirant on the spiritual path falls prey: what he calls spiritual materialism. The universal tendency, he shows, is to see spirituality as a process of self-improvement - the impulse to develop and refine the ego when the ego is, by nature, essentially empty. "The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use," he said, "even spirituality."

His incisive, compassionate teachings serve to wake us up from this trick we all play on ourselves and to offer us a far brighter reality: the true and joyous liberation that inevitably involves letting go of the self rather than working to improve it. It is a message that has resonated with students for nearly thirty years and remains fresh as ever today. This new edition includes a foreword by Chögyam Trungpa's son and lineage holder, Sakyong Mipham.

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Essential reading for any serious practitioner of the path. I've read this book time and again over the past 20+ years and find new depths with each reading.

I'll admit sometimes I have no idea what he's referring to. But the multiple times I'm in awe of this teachers insights make up for the limitations of my own understandings.