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The Memoirs of Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

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Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism vajrayana provides a swift quick inBy 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