| Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism | |
| Author: | Chögyam Trungpa |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Tibetan Buddhism |
| Publisher: | Shambhala Publications |
| Pub Date: | 1973 (1st ed.) |
| Media Type: | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages: | 227 pp (first edition) |
| Isbn: | 978-0-87773-050-7 |
Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism, by Chögyam Trungpa is a book addressing many common pitfalls of self-deception in seeking spirituality, which the author coins as Spiritual materialism. It is the transcript of two series of lectures given by Trungpa Rinpoche in 1970–71.[1]
In Psychology Today Michael J. Formica writes,
As soon as we cast something into a role, as soon as we put a label on it, as soon as we name it and give it life by virtue of our investment (read: ego), we take away all its power and it is nothing more than an event – it is no longer a spiritual revelation, but simply a material experience. That is spiritual materialism at its peak.[2]