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.

From Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism, page 3.

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Chogyam Trungpa giving one of the lectures that became a chapter in Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism.

Circa 1971/1972. Photographer unknown.