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debbieredbear
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Cutting Through Spiritual materialism
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July 12, 2005, 04:03:50 pm »
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 "
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Barnaby_McEwan
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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
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educatedindian
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Interesting, he was the founder of Naropa, who did so much exploitation of sweatlodges. That explains a lot.
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Unfortunately, some truly insightful people, fall pray to their own selves.
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