Cutting Through Spiritual materialism

[debbieredbear]

This just really struck me. I think it is at the heart of some of the fakes and frauds. Also their followers:

http://www.geocities.com/fakemedicinemen/

Cutting Through Spiritual materialism

By Chogyam Trungpa

"Walking the spiritual path properly is a very subtle process; it is not something to jump into naively. There are numerous sidetracks which lead to a distorted, ego-centered version of spirituality; we can deceive ourselves into thinking we are developing spiritually when instead we are strengthening our egocentricity through spiritual techniques. This fundamental distortion may be referred to as spiritual materialism "

[Barnaby_McEwan]

I agree with the sentiment but ironically Trungpa was a womaniser whose alcoholism killed him:

http://www.strippingthegurus.com/stgsamplechapters/trungpa.asp

Google cache of Guardian article

[educatedindian]

Interesting, he was the founder of Naropa, who did so much exploitation of sweatlodges. That explains a lot.

[debbieredbear]

Unfortunately, some truly insightful people, fall pray to their own selves.