Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism 108 one of his father's own

one of his father's own teachers in Tibet

The glossary has been revised accordingly and expanded to incorporate new terms

and completely awake

and Mudras (hand gestures)

The overall significance of the Seven-Line Prayer is perhaps best appreciated in relation to the guru-yoga practice or "union with the nature of the guru

Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism 108 one of his father's ownBy 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