Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism vajrayana painful emotions can be appreciated

painful emotions can be appreciated as a challenging opportunity for new discovery

Traditional Tibetan ruffles at the top ~ may be hung on a rod or by three loops

Also included are an extensive glossary and index

provides a swift quick in the bum for the Ngöndro slacker

thereby creating a legacy that has spread through all sects and schools of Tibetan Buddhism

Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism vajrayana painful emotions can be appreciatedBy Chgyam Trungpa Foreword by Sakyong Mipham In this modern spiritual classic, the Tibetan meditation master Chgyam Trungpa highlights the commonest pitfall to which every aspirant on the spiritual path falls prey: what he calls spiritual materialism. The universal tendency, he shows, is to see spirituality as a process of self improvementthe impulse to develop and refine the ego when the ego is, by nature, essentially empty. The problem is that ego