Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

In this beloved classic, Tibetan meditation master Chogyam Trungpa presents an overview of the spiritual path and warns of common mistakes along that path. "Walking the spiritual path properly is a very subtle process, " Trungpa writes. "There are numerous sidetracks which lead to a distorted, ego-centered version of spirituality; we can deceive ourselves into thinking we are developing spiritually when instead we are strengthening our egocentricity through spiritual techniques." In this book he describes the problem he calls "spiritual materialism." He then offers a description of the true spiritual path and a broad outline of the Buddhist approach to spirituality.