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Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

By Chogyam Trungpa , Foreword by Sakyong Mipham

Book information

Publisher
Shambhala Publications
Year
2002
ISBN
1590306392, 9781590306390
LCC
BQ4302 .T78 2008
Google Books ID
1XuwqkOeAE8C
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8183712 bytes)
Pages
264\264
Topic
Religion Buddhism
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

In this modern spiritual classic, the Tibetan meditation master Ch?gyam Trungpa highlights a common pitfall to which every aspirant on the spiritual path falls prey: what he calls spiritual materialism. The universal human 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,” Trungpa says, “is that ego can convert anything to its own use, 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 over thirty years and remains fresh as ever today. This edition includes a foreward by Ch?gyam Trungpa’s son and lineage holder Sakyong Mipham.

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