(TXS) Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism by Chogyam Trungpa

28 in stock

227mm x 151mm x 17mm

Pages: 272

This modern spiritual classic highlights a trick we play on ourselves and offers a brighter reality: liberation by letting go of the self rather than working to improve it

The Tibetan meditation master Ch+¦gyam Trungpa calls attention to the commonest pitfall to which every aspirant on the spiritual path falls prey: what he calls spiritual materialism. 'The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use,' he says, 'even spirituality.' The universal tendency 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.

Trungpa's incisive, compassionate teachings serve to wake us up from these false comforts. Featuring a new foreward by his son and lineage holder, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism has resonated with students for nearly thirty years'and remains as fresh as ever today.