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This immediately reminded me of Chögyam Trungpa's book "Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism". Wikipedia: "He uses the term [Spiritual Materialism] to describ
by cypherpunks01 8y ago
This immediately reminded me of Chögyam Trungpa's book "Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism".
Wikipedia: "He uses the term [Spiritual Materialism] to describe mistakes spiritual seekers commit which turn the pursuit of spirituality into an ego building and confusion creating endeavor, based on the idea that ego development is counter to spiritual progress." [1]
Very interesting read, a good friend of mine gave it to me early on in my path on meditation. I think it's really a necessity for anyone seeking deeper meaning beyond using yoga & meditations as an ego pursuit.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutting_Through_Spiritual_Materialism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutting_Through_Spiritual_Mate...
- sertsa 8y agoWas going to mention this book as well. This should be hammered on from the beginning of any practice. While anecdotal, my experience with interacting with most western followers of "eastern" practices is that they just use them to feed their egos.