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 Chögyam 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.