Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism Av Chogyam Trungpa

<b>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</b><br> <br> The Tibetan meditation master Chögyam Trungpa calls attention to the commonest pitfall to which every aspirant on the spiritual path falls prey: what he calls <i>spiritual materialism.</i> "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.<br><br>Trungpa''s incisive, compassionate teachings serve to wake us up from these false comforts. Featuring a new foreward by his son and lineage holder, <i>Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism</i> has resonated with students for nearly thirty years—and remains as fresh as ever today.