Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism is a modern spiritual classic.
The Tibetan Zen master Chögyam Trungpa turns on the most common pitfall that every aspirant on the spiritual path falls into: what he calls spiritual materialism. The universal tendency is to see spirituality as a process of self-improvement – the impulse to develop and perfect the self when the ego is, in essence, essentially empty.

His profound and compassionate teachings serve to awaken us from the trick we are all playing with ourselves and provide us with a much brighter reality. A message that has resonated with students for nearly thirty years and is still fresh today. This new edition includes a preface by Chögyam Trungpa’s son and successor, Sakyong Mipham.