Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism - Couverture souple

Chogyam Trungpa, Trungpa Tulku

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0877730504 ISBN 13 : 9780877730507

Editeur : Shambhala Publications Inc, 1987

Synopsis

Book by Trungpa Chogyam

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

In this modern spiritual classic, the Tibetan meditation master Chögyam 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 Chögyam Trungpa’s son and lineage holder Sakyong Mipham.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The now classic Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism is the record of two series of lectures given by Trungpa Rinpoche in 1970-71. "First discussed are the various ways in which people involve themselves in spiritual materialism, the many forms of self-deception into which aspirants may fall. After this tour of the sidetracks along the way, the broad outlines of the true spiritual path are discussed. The approach presented is a classical Buddhist one—not in a formal sense, but in the sense of presenting the heart of the Buddhist approach to spirituality. Although the Buddhist way is not theistic, it does not contradict the theistic disciplines. Rather the differences between the ways are a matter of emphasis and method. The basic problems of spiritual materialism are common to all spiritual disciplines."

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Shambhala Publications Inc
• Date d'édition: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0877730504
• ISBN 13: 9780877730507
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256