Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

副标题: Through Spiritual Materialism

ISBN: 9781590306390

出版社: Shambhala

出版年: 2008-10-14

页数: 368

定价: USD 18.95

装帧: Hardcover

内容简介

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.